[PATCH RFC v3 04/30] ARM: process: Rewrite ret_from_fork i C
From: Linus Walleij <hidden>
Date: 2025-01-07 09:41:32
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Subsystem:
arm port, the rest · Maintainers:
Russell King, Linus Torvalds
Move the direct assembly call to schedule_tail() and the call starting a kernel thread into a C version of ret_from_fork() in process.c and rename the old ret_from_fork to ret_from_fork_asm following the pattern in x86. Leave a comment on what we will do when we get to switching to generic entry with this as a base. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <redacted> --- arch/arm/include/asm/switch_to.h | 4 ++++ arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S | 22 +++++++++++++++------- arch/arm/kernel/process.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++-- 3 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/switch_to.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/switch_to.h
index 9372348516ce9b80fa713966943d0bc622e86066..18d084aff5a4faa7cc5e40d48fbc4aa97a89b0c6 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/switch_to.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/switch_to.h@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ #define __complete_pending_tlbi() #endif +asmlinkage void ret_from_fork_asm(void); +__visible void ret_from_fork(struct task_struct *prev, struct pt_regs *regs, + int (*fn)(void *), void *fn_arg); + /* * switch_to(prev, next) should switch from task `prev' to `next' * `prev' will never be the same as `next'. schedule() itself
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S
index 2f93c2f6d5b8fdf6aaf3dda0192bde144fcf238d..df6961a1006b7a0f3522728812bf52ccb849e511 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ * Copyright (C) 2000 Russell King */ +#include <linux/cfi_types.h> #include <asm/assembler.h> #include <asm/unistd.h> #include <asm/ftrace.h>
@@ -128,15 +129,22 @@ ENDPROC(ret_to_user) /* * This is how we return from a fork. */ -ENTRY(ret_from_fork) - bl schedule_tail - cmp r5, #0 - movne r0, r4 - badrne lr, 1f - retne r5 +SYM_TYPED_FUNC_START(ret_from_fork_asm) + /* + * ret_from_fork() expects: + * r0: prev + * r1: regs + * r2: fn() for kernel process or NULL + * r3: fn_arg for kernel process or N/A + */ + mov r1, sp + mov r2, r5 + mov r3, r4 + bl ret_from_fork + mov r0, #0 1: get_thread_info tsk b ret_to_user -ENDPROC(ret_from_fork) +SYM_FUNC_END(ret_from_fork_asm) /*============================================================================= * SWI handler
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
index e16ed102960cb01d625e2ccc484f238b824b03b3..81c1c3f988344185917cf4e53d0d8ee47ae912f4 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ #include <asm/processor.h> #include <asm/thread_notify.h> #include <asm/stacktrace.h> +#include <asm/switch_to.h> #include <asm/system_misc.h> #include <asm/mach/time.h> #include <asm/tls.h>
@@ -230,7 +231,26 @@ void flush_thread(void) thread_notify(THREAD_NOTIFY_FLUSH, thread); } -asmlinkage void ret_from_fork(void) __asm__("ret_from_fork"); +/* The assembly stub sets up the parameters and calls ret_from_fork() */ +asmlinkage void ret_from_fork_asm(void) __asm__("ret_from_fork_asm"); + +__visible void ret_from_fork(struct task_struct *prev, struct pt_regs *regs, + int (*fn)(void *), void *fn_arg) +{ + schedule_tail(prev); + + /* Is this a kernel thread? */ + if (unlikely(fn)) { + fn(fn_arg); + /* + * A kernel thread is allowed to return here after successfully + * calling kernel_execve(). Exit to userspace to complete the + * execve() syscall. + */ + } + + /* syscall_exit_to_user_mode(regs); here once we switch to generic entry */ +} int copy_thread(struct task_struct *p, const struct kernel_clone_args *args) {
@@ -263,7 +283,7 @@ int copy_thread(struct task_struct *p, const struct kernel_clone_args *args) thread->cpu_context.r5 = (unsigned long)args->fn; childregs->ARM_cpsr = SVC_MODE; } - thread->cpu_context.pc = (unsigned long)ret_from_fork; + thread->cpu_context.pc = (unsigned long)ret_from_fork_asm; thread->cpu_context.sp = (unsigned long)childregs; clear_ptrace_hw_breakpoint(p);
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