The SAVE_SOME macro is used to save the execution context on all
exceptions.
If an exception occurs while executing user code, the stack is switched
to the kernel's stack for the current task, and register $28 is switched
to point to the current_thread_info, which is at the bottom of the stack
region.
If the exception occurs while executing kernel code, the stack is left,
and this change ensures that register $28 is not updated. This is the
correct behaviour when the kernel can be executing on the separate irq
stack, because the thread_info will not be at the base of it.
With this change, register $28 is only switched to it's kernel
conventional usage of the currrent thread info pointer at the point at
which execution enters kernel space. Doing it on every exception was
redundant, but OK without an IRQ stack, but will be erroneous once that
is introduced.
Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14742/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The FPU should not be left enabled after a task context switch. This
isn't usually a problem as the FPU enable bit is updated before
returning to userland, however it can potentially mask kernel bugs, and
in fact KVM assumes it won't happen and won't clear the FPU enable bit
before returning to the guest, which allows the guest to use stale FPU
context.
Interrupts and exceptions save and restore most bits of the CP0 Status
register which contains the FPU enable bit (CU1). When the kernel needs
to enable or disable the FPU (for example due to attempted FPU use by
userland, or the scheduler being invoked) both the actual Status
register and the saved value in the userland context are updated.
However this doesn't work correctly with full kernel preemption enabled,
since the FPU enable bit can be cleared from within an interrupt when
the scheduler is invoked, and only the userland context is updated, not
the interrupt context.
For example:
1) Enter kernel with FPU already enabled, TIF_USEDFPU=1, Status.CU1=1
saved.
2) Take a timer interrupt while in kernel mode, Status.CU1=1 saved.
3) Timer interrupt invokes scheduler to preempt the task, which clears
TIF_USEDFPU, disables the FPU in Status register (Status.CU1=0), and
the value stored in user context from step (1), but not the interrupt
context from step (2).
4) When the process is scheduled back in again Status.CU1=0.
5) The interrupt context from step (2) is restored, which sets
Status.CU1=1. So from user context point of view, preemption has
re-enabled FPU!
6) If the scheduler is invoked again (via preemption or voluntarily)
before returning to userland, TIF_USEDFPU=0 so the FPU is not
disabled before the task context switch.
7) The next task resumes from the context switch with FPU enabled!
The restoring of the Status register on return from interrupt/exception
is already selective about which bits to restore, leaving the interrupt
mask bits alone so enabling/disabling of CPU interrupt lines can
persist. Extend this to also leave both the CU1 bit (FPU enable) and the
FR bit (which specifies the FPU mode and gets changed with CU1). This
prevents a stale Status value being restored in step (5) above and
persisting through subsequent context switches.
Also switch to the use of definitions from asm/mipsregs.h while we're at
it.
Since this change also affects the restoration of Status register on the
path back to userland, it increases the sensitivity of the kernel to the
problem of the FPU being left enabled, allowing it to propagate to
userland, therefore a warning is also added to lose_fpu_inatomic() to
point out any future reoccurances before they do any damage.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/12303/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
When EVA is enabled, flush the Return Prediction Stack (RPS) present on
some MIPS cores on entry to the kernel from user mode.
This is important specifically for interAptiv with EVA enabled,
otherwise kernel mode RPS mispredicts may trigger speculative fetches of
user return addresses, which may be sensitive in the kernel address
space due to EVA's overlapping user/kernel address spaces.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Cc: Leonid Yegoshin <leonid.yegoshin@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.15.x-
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10812/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The HI/LO registers have been removed from MIPS R6. Instructions
such as MULT and DIV have been replaced with a new pair of
instructions for the HI/LO operations for example:
MULT -> MUL, MUH
DIV -> DIV, MOD
So we avoid preserving the pre-R6 HI/LO registers in MIPS R6
Signed-off-by: Leonid Yegoshin <Leonid.Yegoshin@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@imgtec.com>
Nobody is maintaining SMTC anymore and there also seems to be no userbase.
Which is a pity - the SMTC technology primarily developed by Kevin D.
Kissell <kevink@paralogos.com> is an ingenious demonstration for the MT
ASE's power and elegance.
Based on Markos Chandras <Markos.Chandras@imgtec.com> patch
https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/6719/ which while very similar did
no longer apply cleanly when I tried to merge it plus some additional
post-SMTC cleanup - SMTC was a feature as tricky to remove as it was to
merge once upon a time.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
With binutils 2.24 the attempt to switch with microMIPS mode to MIPS III
mode through .set mips3 results in *lots* of warnings like
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:397: Warning: the 64-bit MIPS architecture does not support the `smartmips' extension
during a kernel build. Fixed by using .set arch=r4000 instead.
This breaks support for building the kernel with binutils 2.13 which
was supported for 32 bit kernels only anyway and 2.14 which was a bad
vintage for MIPS anyway.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The definition of the CP0 register used to save the smp processor
id is repicated in many files, move them all to thread_info.h.
Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C <jchandra@broadcom.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5708/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The ABI allows these to be clobbered on syscalls, so only save and
restore the multiplier state when the temporary registers need to be
preserved.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/5540/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
All exceptions must be taken in microMIPS mode, never in classic
MIPS mode or the kernel falls apart. A few NOP instructions are
used to maintain the correct alignment of microMIPS versions of
the exception vectors.
Signed-off-by: Steven J. Hill <Steven.Hill@imgtec.com>
Having received another series of whitespace patches I decided to do this
once and for all rather than dealing with this kind of patches trickling
in forever.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Reported-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2753/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Processors that support the mips64r2 ISA can in four instructions
convert a shifted PGD pointer stored in the upper bits of c0_context
into a usable pointer. By doing this we save a memory load and
associated potential cache miss in the TLB exception handlers.
Since the upper bits of c0_context were holding the CPU number, we
move this to the upper bits of c0_xcontext which doesn't have enough
bits to hold the PGD pointer, but has plenty for the CPU number.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
For OCTEON, implement a save and restore of the multiplier state
across context switches.
Signed-off-by: Tomaso Paoletti <tpaoletti@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
