linux.git/include/asm-powerpc/elf.h, branch master

powerpc: Move include files to arch/powerpc/include/asm

2008-08-04T02:02:00+00:00

from include/asm-powerpc.  This is the result of a

mkdir arch/powerpc/include/asm
git mv include/asm-powerpc/* arch/powerpc/include/asm

Followed by a few documentation/comment fixups and a couple of places
where  was being used explicitly.  Of the latter only
one was outside the arch code and it is a driver only built for powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

powerpc: Enable AT_BASE_PLATFORM aux vector

2008-07-25T05:44:39+00:00

Stash the first platform string matched by identify_cpu() in
powerpc_base_platform, and supply that to the ELF loader for the value
of AT_BASE_PLATFORM.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Remove old dump_task_* functions

2008-07-03T06:58:13+00:00

Since Roland's ptrace cleanup starting with commit
f65255e8d51ecbc6c9eef20d39e0377d19b658ca ("[POWERPC] Use user_regset
accessors for FP regs"), the dump_task_* functions are no longer being
used.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

powerpc: Update for VSX core file and ptrace

2008-07-01T04:47:09+00:00

This correctly hooks the VSX dump into Roland McGrath core file
infrastructure.  It adds the VSX dump information as an additional elf
note in the core file (after talking more to the tool chain/gdb guys).
This also ensures the formats are consistent between signals, ptrace
and core files.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

powerpc: Keep 3 high personality bytes across exec

2008-07-01T04:47:02+00:00

Currently when a 32 bit process is exec'd on a powerpc 64 bit host the
value in the top three bytes of the personality is clobbered.  patch
adds a check in the SET_PERSONALITY macro that will carry all the
values in the top three bytes across the exec.

These three bytes currently carry flags to disable address randomisation,
limit the address space, force zeroing of an mmapped page, etc.  Should an
application set any of these bits they will be maintained and honoured on
homogeneous environment but discarded and ignored on a heterogeneous
environment.  So if an application requires all mmapped pages to be initialised
to zero and a wrapper is used to setup the personality and exec the target,
these flags will remain set on an all 32 or all 64 bit envrionment, but they
will be lost in the exec on a mixed 32/64 bit environment.  Losing these bits
means that the same application would behave differently in different
environments.  Tested on a POWER5+ machine with 64bit kernel and a mixed
64/32 bit user space.

Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

powerpc: Add VSX context save/restore, ptrace and signal support

2008-07-01T01:28:50+00:00

This patch extends the floating point save and restore code to use the
VSX load/stores when VSX is available.  This will make FP context
save/restore marginally slower on FP only code, when VSX is available,
as it has to load/store 128bits rather than just 64bits.

Mixing FP, VMX and VSX code will get constant architected state.

The signals interface is extended to enable access to VSR 0-31
doubleword 1 after discussions with tool chain maintainers.  Backward
compatibility is maintained.

The ptrace interface is also extended to allow access to VSR 0-31 full
registers.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

powerpc: asm/elf.h: Reduce userspace header

2008-07-01T01:28:15+00:00

This makes asm/elf.h export less non-userspace stuff to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Switch to generic compat_binfmt_elf code

2008-02-07T09:40:18+00:00

This switches the CONFIG_PPC64 support for 32-bit ELF to use the
generic fs/compat_binfmt_elf.c implementation instead of our own
binfmt_elf32.c.  Since so much is the same between 32/64, there is
only one macro we have to define to make the generic support work out
of the box.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Switch to using user_regset-based core dumps

2008-02-07T09:40:17+00:00

This switches powerpc to using the user_regset-based code for ELF core
dumps.  The core dumps come out exactly the same either way, except that
the NT_PPC_VMX note is now omitted for any thread that never touched its
Altivec registers (thread_struct.vr_used).

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

increase AT_VECTOR_SIZE to terminate saved_auxv properly

2007-10-17T15:43:00+00:00

include/asm-powerpc/elf.h has 6 entries in ARCH_DLINFO.  fs/binfmt_elf.c
has 14 unconditional NEW_AUX_ENT entries and 2 conditional NEW_AUX_ENT
entries.  So in the worst case, saved_auxv does not get an AT_NULL entry at
the end.

The saved_auxv array must be terminated with an AT_NULL entry.  Make the
size of mm_struct->saved_auxv arch dependend, based on the number of
ARCH_DLINFO entries.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering 
Cc: Roland McGrath 
Cc: Jakub Jelinek 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds