From 40bdac7dbc161639a498697f34fbd1ee800e51f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David S. Miller" Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 22:00:55 -0800 Subject: sparc64: Kill .fixup section bloat. This is an implementation of a suggestion made by Chris Torek: -------------------- Something else I noticed in passing: the EX and EX_LD/EX_ST macros scattered throughout the various .S files make a fair bit of .fixup code, all of which does the same thing. At the cost of one symbol in copy_in_user.S, you could just have one common two-instruction retl-and-mov-1 fixup that they all share. -------------------- The following is with a defconfig build: text data bss dec hex filename 3972767 344024 584449 4901240 4ac978 vmlinux.orig 3968887 344024 584449 4897360 4aba50 vmlinux Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- arch/sparc/lib/NG2copy_to_user.S | 7 +------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/sparc/lib/NG2copy_to_user.S') diff --git a/arch/sparc/lib/NG2copy_to_user.S b/arch/sparc/lib/NG2copy_to_user.S index 4bd4093acbb..c477e1594a7 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/lib/NG2copy_to_user.S +++ b/arch/sparc/lib/NG2copy_to_user.S @@ -5,14 +5,9 @@ #define EX_ST(x) \ 98: x; \ - .section .fixup; \ - .align 4; \ -99: wr %g0, ASI_AIUS, %asi;\ - retl; \ - mov 1, %o0; \ .section __ex_table,"a";\ .align 4; \ - .word 98b, 99b; \ + .word 98b, __retl_one_asi;\ .text; \ .align 4; -- cgit v1.2.3 From aeb398768345c74a9e4c01aa3ebf839e858312ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David S. Miller" Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 22:32:31 -0800 Subject: sparc64: Fix probe_kernel_{read,write}(). This is based upon a report from Chris Torek and his initial patch. From Chris's report: -------------------- This came up in testing kgdb, using the built-in tests -- turn on CONFIG_KGDB_TESTS, then echo V1 > /sys/module/kgdbts/parameters/kgdbts -- but it would affect using kgdb if you were debugging and looking at bad pointers. -------------------- When we get a copy_{from,to}_user() request and the %asi is set to something other than ASI_AIUS (which is userspace) then we branch off to a routine called memcpy_user_stub(). It just does a straight memcpy since we are copying from kernel to kernel in this case. The logic was that since source and destination are both kernel pointers we don't need to have exception checks. But for what probe_kernel_{read,write}() is trying to do, we have to have the checks, otherwise things like kgdb bad kernel pointer accesses don't do the right thing. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- arch/sparc/lib/NG2copy_to_user.S | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/sparc/lib/NG2copy_to_user.S') diff --git a/arch/sparc/lib/NG2copy_to_user.S b/arch/sparc/lib/NG2copy_to_user.S index c477e1594a7..7fe1ccefd9d 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/lib/NG2copy_to_user.S +++ b/arch/sparc/lib/NG2copy_to_user.S @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ #define PREAMBLE \ rd %asi, %g1; \ cmp %g1, ASI_AIUS; \ - bne,pn %icc, memcpy_user_stub; \ + bne,pn %icc, ___copy_in_user; \ nop #endif -- cgit v1.2.3