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s390: add a system call for guarded storage
authorMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Tue, 26 Jan 2016 13:10:34 +0000 (14:10 +0100)
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Wed, 22 Mar 2017 07:14:25 +0000 (08:14 +0100)
commit916cda1aa1b412d7cf2991c3af7479544942d121
tree51e373acacf962c1635899f1567484be0baed745
parent093b995e3b55a0ae0670226ddfcb05bfbf0099ae
s390: add a system call for guarded storage

This adds a new system call to enable the use of guarded storage for
user space processes. The system call takes two arguments, a command
and pointer to a guarded storage control block:

    s390_guarded_storage(int command, struct gs_cb *gs_cb);

The second argument is relevant only for the GS_SET_BC_CB command.

The commands in detail:

0 - GS_ENABLE
    Enable the guarded storage facility for the current task. The
    initial content of the guarded storage control block will be
    all zeros. After the enablement the user space code can use
    load-guarded-storage-controls instruction (LGSC) to load an
    arbitrary control block. While a task is enabled the kernel
    will save and restore the current content of the guarded
    storage registers on context switch.
1 - GS_DISABLE
    Disables the use of the guarded storage facility for the current
    task. The kernel will cease to save and restore the content of
    the guarded storage registers, the task specific content of
    these registers is lost.
2 - GS_SET_BC_CB
    Set a broadcast guarded storage control block. This is called
    per thread and stores a specific guarded storage control block
    in the task struct of the current task. This control block will
    be used for the broadcast event GS_BROADCAST.
3 - GS_CLEAR_BC_CB
    Clears the broadcast guarded storage control block. The guarded-
    storage control block is removed from the task struct that was
    established by GS_SET_BC_CB.
4 - GS_BROADCAST
    Sends a broadcast to all thread siblings of the current task.
    Every sibling that has established a broadcast guarded storage
    control block will load this control block and will be enabled
    for guarded storage. The broadcast guarded storage control block
    is used up, a second broadcast without a refresh of the stored
    control block with GS_SET_BC_CB will not have any effect.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
27 files changed:
arch/s390/include/asm/elf.h
arch/s390/include/asm/lowcore.h
arch/s390/include/asm/nmi.h
arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h
arch/s390/include/asm/setup.h
arch/s390/include/asm/switch_to.h
arch/s390/include/asm/thread_info.h
arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild
arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/guarded_storage.h [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
arch/s390/kernel/Makefile
arch/s390/kernel/asm-offsets.c
arch/s390/kernel/compat_wrapper.c
arch/s390/kernel/early.c
arch/s390/kernel/entry.S
arch/s390/kernel/entry.h
arch/s390/kernel/guarded_storage.c [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/s390/kernel/machine_kexec.c
arch/s390/kernel/nmi.c
arch/s390/kernel/process.c
arch/s390/kernel/processor.c
arch/s390/kernel/ptrace.c
arch/s390/kernel/setup.c
arch/s390/kernel/smp.c
arch/s390/kernel/syscalls.S
arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c
include/uapi/linux/elf.h