Thread (26 messages) 26 messages, 4 authors, 2019-06-08

Re: [PATCH for 5.2 07/12] rseq/selftests: s390: use trap4 for RSEQ_SIG

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From: shuah <shuah@kernel.org>
Date: 2019-05-16 20:39:33
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Hi Mathieu,

On 4/29/19 9:27 AM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
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From: Martin Schwidefsky <redacted>

Use trap4 as the guard instruction for the restartable sequence abort
handler.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
---
  tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-s390.h | 9 ++++++++-
  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-s390.h b/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-s390.h
index 7c4f3a70b6c7..1d05c5187ae6 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-s390.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-s390.h
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
  /* SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1 OR MIT */
  
-#define RSEQ_SIG	0x53053053
+/*
+ * RSEQ_SIG uses the trap4 instruction. As Linux does not make use of the
+ * access-register mode nor the linkage stack this instruction will always
+ * cause a special-operation exception (the trap-enabled bit in the DUCT
+ * is and will stay 0). The instruction pattern is
+ *	b2 ff 0f ff	trap4   4095(%r0)
+ */
+#define RSEQ_SIG	0xB2FF0FFF
  
  #define rseq_smp_mb()	__asm__ __volatile__ ("bcr 15,0" ::: "memory")
  #define rseq_smp_rmb()	rseq_smp_mb()
I generated my pull request for Linus and did a sanity check and ran
into merge conflict on this patch. Looks like this is already in
Linus's tree.

Can you confirm!

I have to drop this patch and regenerate my pull request. Can you
confirm!

thanks,
-- Shuah
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