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The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a
"you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally
handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler.
That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault
handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do
retries etc" - but it generally works. However, there are cases where
the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV.
In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a
SIGSEGV. And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by
that duplicated architecture fault handler.
However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return
from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error
from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the
existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space. And user space really
expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS.
To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those
duplicate architecture fault handlers about it. They all already have
the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return
value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying.
This is the mindless minimal patch to do this. A more extensive patch
would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into
one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that
cleanup.
Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just
copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in
the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM
semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other
"newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those
improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about
them too.
Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch adds Makefile and Kconfig files required for building a
nios2 kernel.
Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
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This patch adds support for the DMA mapping API.
Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
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This patch adds the TLB maintenance functions.
Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
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This patch adds functionality required for cache maintenance.
Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
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This patch adds support for thread creation and context switching.
Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
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This patch adds support for page table management.
Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
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This patch adds support for the handling of the MMU faults (exception
entry code introduced by a previous patch, kernel/entry.S).
Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
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This patch adds several definitions for I/O accessors and ioremap().
Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
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This patch contains the initialisation of the memory blocks, MMU
attributes and the memory map.
Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
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