1. 21 2月, 2007 1 次提交
  2. 06 2月, 2007 3 次提交
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      [S390] Convert memory detection into C code. · ab14de6c
      Heiko Carstens 提交于
      Hopefully this will make it more maintainable and less error prone.
      Code makes use of search_exception_tables(). Since it calls this
      function before the kernel exeception table is sorted, there is an
      early call to sort_main_extable().
      
      This way it's easy to use the already present infrastructure of fixup
      sections. Also this would allows to easily convert the rest of
      head[31|64].S into C code.
      Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      ab14de6c
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      [S390] boot from NSS support · fe355b7f
      Hongjie Yang 提交于
      Add support to boot from a named saved segment (NSS).
      Signed-off-by: NHongjie Yang <hongjie@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      fe355b7f
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      [S390] noexec protection · c1821c2e
      Gerald Schaefer 提交于
      This provides a noexec protection on s390 hardware. Our hardware does
      not have any bits left in the pte for a hw noexec bit, so this is a
      different approach using shadow page tables and a special addressing
      mode that allows separate address spaces for code and data.
      
      As a special feature of our "secondary-space" addressing mode, separate
      page tables can be specified for the translation of data addresses
      (storage operands) and instruction addresses. The shadow page table is
      used for the instruction addresses and the standard page table for the
      data addresses.
      The shadow page table is linked to the standard page table by a pointer
      in page->lru.next of the struct page corresponding to the page that
      contains the standard page table (since page->private is not really
      private with the pte_lock and the page table pages are not in the LRU
      list).
      Depending on the software bits of a pte, it is either inserted into
      both page tables or just into the standard (data) page table. Pages of
      a vma that does not have the VM_EXEC bit set get mapped only in the
      data address space. Any try to execute code on such a page will cause a
      page translation exception. The standard reaction to this is a SIGSEGV
      with two exceptions: the two system call opcodes 0x0a77 (sys_sigreturn)
      and 0x0aad (sys_rt_sigreturn) are allowed. They are stored by the
      kernel to the signal stack frame. Unfortunately, the signal return
      mechanism cannot be modified to use an SA_RESTORER because the
      exception unwinding code depends on the system call opcode stored
      behind the signal stack frame.
      
      This feature requires that user space is executed in secondary-space
      mode and the kernel in home-space mode, which means that the addressing
      modes need to be switched and that the noexec protection only works
      for user space.
      After switching the addressing modes, we cannot use the mvcp/mvcs
      instructions anymore to copy between kernel and user space. A new
      mvcos instruction has been added to the z9 EC/BC hardware which allows
      to copy between arbitrary address spaces, but on older hardware the
      page tables need to be walked manually.
      Signed-off-by: NGerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      c1821c2e
  3. 16 12月, 2006 3 次提交
  4. 04 12月, 2006 6 次提交
  5. 28 9月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [S390] Inline assembly cleanup. · 94c12cc7
      Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
      Major cleanup of all s390 inline assemblies. They now have a common
      coding style. Quite a few have been shortened, mainly by using register
      asm variables. Use of the EX_TABLE macro helps  as well. The atomic ops,
      bit ops and locking inlines new use the Q-constraint if a newer gcc
      is used.  That results in slightly better code.
      
      Thanks to Christian Borntraeger for proof reading the changes.
      Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      94c12cc7
  6. 20 9月, 2006 2 次提交