ARCv2: save ABI registers across signal handling
authorVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Wed, 9 Jun 2021 02:39:25 +0000 (19:39 -0700)
committerVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Fri, 11 Jun 2021 00:21:38 +0000 (17:21 -0700)
commit96f1b00138cb8f04c742c82d0a7c460b2202e887
treefe7f0aac7c9ba9661be62c47d20ecba421f90b0b
parentd07f6ca923ea0927a1024dfccafc5b53b61cfecc
ARCv2: save ABI registers across signal handling

ARCv2 has some configuration dependent registers (r30, r58, r59) which
could be targetted by the compiler. To keep the ABI stable, these were
unconditionally part of the glibc ABI
(sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arc/sys/ucontext.h:mcontext_t) however we
missed populating them (by saving/restoring them across signal
handling).

This patch fixes the issue by
 - adding arcv2 ABI regs to kernel struct sigcontext
 - populating them during signal handling

Change to struct sigcontext might seem like a glibc ABI change (although
it primarily uses ucontext_t:mcontext_t) but the fact is
 - it has only been extended (existing fields are not touched)
 - the old sigcontext was ABI incomplete to begin with anyways

Fixes: https://github.com/foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors/linux/issues/53
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Tested-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Reported-by: Vladimir Isaev <isaev@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
arch/arc/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h
arch/arc/kernel/signal.c