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The earliest Meta architecture port of Linux I have a record of was an
import of a Meta port of Linux v2.4.1 in February 2004, which was worked
on significantly over the next few years by Graham Whaley, Will Newton,
Matt Fleming, myself and others.
Eventually the port was merged into mainline in v3.9 in March 2013, not
long after Imagination Technologies bought MIPS Technologies and shifted
its CPU focus over to the MIPS architecture.
As a result, though the port was maintained for a while, kept on life
support for a while longer, and useful for testing a few specific
drivers for which I don't have ready access to the equivalent MIPS
hardware, it is now essentially dead with no users.
It is also stuck using an out-of-tree toolchain based on GCC 4.2.4 which
is no longer maintained, now struggles to build modern kernels due to
toolchain bugs, and doesn't itself build with a modern GCC. The latest
buildroot port is still using an old uClibc snapshot which is no longer
served, and the latest uClibc doesn't build with GCC 4.2.4.
So lets call it a day and drop the Meta architecture port from the
kernel. RIP Meta.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/95906b76-6ce1-3f84-eaba-c29b4ae952eb@roeck-us.net
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Graham Whaley <graham.whaley@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-metag@vger.kernel.org
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Merge PTRACE_SETREGSET leakage fixes from Dave Martin:
"This series is the collection of fixes I proposed on this topic, that
have not yet appeared upstream or in the stable branches,
The issue can leak kernel stack, but doesn't appear to allow userspace
to attack the kernel directly. The affected architectures are c6x,
h8300, metag, mips and sparc.
[ Mark Salter points out that c6x has no MMU or other mechanism to
prevent userspace access to kernel code or data on c6x, but it
doesn't hurt to clean that case up too. ]
The bugs arise from use of user_regset_copyin(). Users of
user_regset_copyin() can work in one of two ways:
1) Copy directly to thread_struct or equivalent. (This seems to be
the design assumption of the regset API, and is the most common
approach.)
2) Copy to a local variable and then transfer to thread_struct. (A
significant minority of cases.)
Buggy code typically involves approach 2"
* emailed patches from Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>:
sparc/ptrace: Preserve previous registers for short regset write
mips/ptrace: Preserve previous registers for short regset write
metag/ptrace: Reject partial NT_METAG_RPIPE writes
metag/ptrace: Provide default TXSTATUS for short NT_PRSTATUS
metag/ptrace: Preserve previous registers for short regset write
h8300/ptrace: Fix incorrect register transfer count
c6x/ptrace: Remove useless PTRACE_SETREGSET implementation
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It's not clear what behaviour is sensible when doing partial write of
NT_METAG_RPIPE, so just don't bother.
This patch assumes that userspace will never rely on a partial SETREGSET
in this case, since it's not clear what should happen anyway.
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Acked-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ensure that if userspace supplies insufficient data to PTRACE_SETREGSET
to fill TXSTATUS, a well-defined default value is used, based on the
task's current value.
Suggested-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ensure that if userspace supplies insufficient data to PTRACE_SETREGSET
to fill all the registers, the thread's old registers are preserved.
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Acked-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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<linux/sched/task_stack.h>
We are going to split <linux/sched/task_stack.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.
Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/task_stack.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.
Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Implement functionality to get the TLS pointer for the metag
architecture using regsets.
This provides multi-threaded debug support for GDB.
Signed-off-by: Paul Clothier <Paul.Clothier@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
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The ptrace interface for metag provides access to some core register
sets using the PTRACE_GETREGSET and PTRACE_SETREGSET operations. The
details of the internal context structures is abstracted into user API
structures to both ease use and allow flexibility to change the internal
context layouts. Copyin and copyout functions for these register sets
are exposed to allow signal handling code to use them to copy to and
from the signal context.
struct user_gp_regs (NT_PRSTATUS) provides access to the core general
purpose register context.
struct user_cb_regs (NT_METAG_CBUF) provides access to the TXCATCH*
registers which contains information abuot a memory fault, unaligned
access error or watchpoint. This can be modified to alter the way the
fault is replayed on resume ("catch replay"), or to prevent the replay
taking place.
struct user_rp_state (NT_METAG_RPIPE) provides access to the state of
the Meta read pipeline which can be used to hide memory latencies in
hand optimised data loops.
Extended DSP register state, DSP RAM, and hardware breakpoint registers
aren't yet exposed through ptrace.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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