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| author | Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> | 2013-04-17 17:33:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2013-04-26 16:08:16 +1000 |
| commit | 2171364d1a92d0a101b455315de7a92efb566008 (patch) | |
| tree | f9950115c41fc580b106d6c836ca567bb9af9b35 | |
| parent | 6263fb3bd79834411e41acb8b02153e034ab810d (diff) | |
| download | lwn-2171364d1a92d0a101b455315de7a92efb566008.tar.gz lwn-2171364d1a92d0a101b455315de7a92efb566008.zip | |
powerpc: Add HWCAP2 aux entry
We are currently out of free bits in AT_HWCAP. With POWER8, we have
several hardware features that we need to advertise.
Tested on POWER and x86.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <michael@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/binfmt_elf.c | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/auxvec.h | 1 |
5 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h index fb3245e928ea..ccadad6db4e4 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputable.h @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ struct cpu_spec { char *cpu_name; unsigned long cpu_features; /* Kernel features */ unsigned int cpu_user_features; /* Userland features */ + unsigned int cpu_user_features2; /* Userland features v2 */ unsigned int mmu_features; /* MMU features */ /* cache line sizes */ diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h index ac9790fc3836..cc0655a702a7 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/elf.h @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ typedef elf_vrregset_t elf_fpxregset_t; instruction set this cpu supports. This could be done in userspace, but it's not easy, and we've already done it here. */ # define ELF_HWCAP (cur_cpu_spec->cpu_user_features) +# define ELF_HWCAP2 (cur_cpu_spec->cpu_user_features2) /* This yields a string that ld.so will use to load implementation specific libraries for optimization. This is more specific in diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c index 86af964c2425..f1c64a27257e 100644 --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c @@ -240,6 +240,9 @@ create_elf_tables(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct elfhdr *exec, NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_EGID, from_kgid_munged(cred->user_ns, cred->egid)); NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_SECURE, security_bprm_secureexec(bprm)); NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_RANDOM, (elf_addr_t)(unsigned long)u_rand_bytes); +#ifdef ELF_HWCAP2 + NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_HWCAP2, ELF_HWCAP2); +#endif NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_EXECFN, bprm->exec); if (k_platform) { NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_PLATFORM, diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c b/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c index 9c13e023e2b7..bf2381d00132 100644 --- a/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c @@ -483,7 +483,6 @@ static int create_elf_fdpic_tables(struct linux_binprm *bprm, size_t platform_len = 0, len; char *k_platform, *k_base_platform; char __user *u_platform, *u_base_platform, *p; - long hwcap; int loop; int nr; /* reset for each csp adjustment */ @@ -502,8 +501,6 @@ static int create_elf_fdpic_tables(struct linux_binprm *bprm, return -EFAULT; #endif - hwcap = ELF_HWCAP; - /* * If this architecture has a platform capability string, copy it * to userspace. In some cases (Sparc), this info is impossible @@ -617,7 +614,10 @@ static int create_elf_fdpic_tables(struct linux_binprm *bprm, nr = 0; csp -= DLINFO_ITEMS * 2 * sizeof(unsigned long); - NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_HWCAP, hwcap); + NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_HWCAP, ELF_HWCAP); +#ifdef ELF_HWCAP2 + NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_HWCAP2, ELF_HWCAP2); +#endif NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_PAGESZ, PAGE_SIZE); NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_CLKTCK, CLOCKS_PER_SEC); NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_PHDR, exec_params->ph_addr); diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/auxvec.h b/include/uapi/linux/auxvec.h index 61594d598e7b..835c065cc7e1 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/auxvec.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/auxvec.h @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ #define AT_BASE_PLATFORM 24 /* string identifying real platform, may * differ from AT_PLATFORM. */ #define AT_RANDOM 25 /* address of 16 random bytes */ +#define AT_HWCAP2 26 /* extension of AT_HWCAP */ #define AT_EXECFN 31 /* filename of program */ |