Re: [RFC PATCH for 4.18 09/16] powerpc: Add syscall detection for restartable sequences

----- On Jun 5, 2018, at 1:21 AM, Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au wrote:

Mathieu Desnoyers [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

From: Boqun Feng <redacted>

Syscalls are not allowed inside restartable sequences, so add a call to
rseq_syscall() at the very beginning of system call exiting path for
CONFIG_DEBUG_RSEQ=y kernel. This could help us to detect whether there
is a syscall issued inside restartable sequences.

[ Tested on 64-bit powerpc kernel by Mathieu Desnoyers. Still needs to
  be tested on 32-bit powerpc kernel. ]

Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
CC: Paul Mackerras <redacted>
CC: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: "Paul E. McKenney" <redacted>
CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
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 arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_32.S | 7 +++++++
 arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

I don't _love_ the #ifdefs in here, but they look correct and there's
not really a better option until we rewrite the syscall handler in C.

The rseq selftests passed for me with this applied and enabled. So if
you like here's some tags:

Tested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

Adding you ack to the series.

Thanks!

Mathieu

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