- Aug 20, 2019
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Guo Ren authored
We prohibit non-aligned access in kernel mode, but some special NIC driver needs to support kernel-state unaligned access. For example, when the bus does not support unaligned access, IP header parsing will cause non-aligned access and driver does not recopy the skb buffer to dma for performance reasons. Added kernel_enable & user_enable to control unaligned access and added kernel_count & user_count for statistical unaligned access. Signed-off-by:
Guo Ren <ren_guo@c-sky.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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- May 29, 2019
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Eric W. Biederman authored
As synchronous exceptions really only make sense against the current task (otherwise how are you synchronous) remove the task parameter from from force_sig_fault to make it explicit that is what is going on. The two known exceptions that deliver a synchronous exception to a stopped ptraced task have already been changed to force_sig_fault_to_task. The callers have been changed with the following emacs regular expression (with obvious variations on the architectures that take more arguments) to avoid typos: force_sig_fault[(]\([^,]+\)[,]\([^,]+\)[,]\([^,]+\)[,]\W+current[)] -> force_sig_fault(\1,\2,\3) Signed-off-by:
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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- Jan 04, 2019
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Linus Torvalds authored
Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand. It existed because the original 80386 would not honor the write protect bit when in kernel mode, so you had to do COW by hand before doing any user access. But we haven't supported that in a long time, and these days the 'type' argument is a purely historical artifact. A discussion about extending 'user_access_begin()' to do the range checking resulted this patch, because there is no way we're going to move the old VERIFY_xyz interface to that model. And it's best done at the end of the merge window when I've done most of my merges, so let's just get this done once and for all. This patch was mostly done with a sed-script, with manual fix-ups for the cases that weren't of the trivial 'access_ok(VERIFY_xyz' form. There were a couple of notable cases: - csky still had the old "verify_area()" name as an alias. - the iter_iov code had magical hardcoded knowledge of the actual values of VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} (not that they mattered, since nothing really used it) - microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout but other than those oddities this should be a total no-op patch. I tried to fix up all architectures, did fairly extensive grepping for access_ok() uses, and the changes are trivial, but I may have missed something. Any missed conversion should be trivially fixable, though. Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Oct 25, 2018
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Guo Ren authored
This patch adds exception handling code, cpuinfo and mm-fault code. Signed-off-by:
Guo Ren <ren_guo@c-sky.com> Reviewed-by:
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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