From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FROM,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 23413 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2020 08:12:33 -0000 Received: from mother.openwall.net (195.42.179.200) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 11 Jun 2020 08:12:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 29739 invoked by uid 550); 11 Jun 2020 08:12:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com Received: (qmail 29705 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2020 08:12:28 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=kUiKHVOoF7ZJ8wmYqv/EYMT0xBNo94MONSSmPtqQvA4=; b=MEbAXRgO0MQVR2F0fIZQNqz2FB/AJS6wntOpGny86mtKUPRYnONkoxK6UM09b2jFOq Mw2MQLsYe6hsesCsJutBua51Te81CgWQOsvxX00UbHsLcNF7Id3vIPPHoXkLd1GZs3YO KBGnBH45D2lhJQ/5YSlw+p4ofvZab94WQfkmWjpJL5Pvv8uA5CswRQj60eKBBEFbngmF t2xV91VrgKR4M8vk2vHL4Xyw9NR0JUdTIKbJzLp5MHEfpZJNY5ewscz7HcCWzelvWm7C TohzWS8wwx2UbEp3v8sosGgOdwu5gdR8E5lTVydIdv5yLwCiDs8vOsORtmT9rzgHUu+g dsyQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=kUiKHVOoF7ZJ8wmYqv/EYMT0xBNo94MONSSmPtqQvA4=; b=ecgd4tiNeI1tTAVp/tnvoPqExt4L26HuxAX9uan3iy7tpwZOVk7a23MWI5/exdKJ3j 6ykLLoKKoJCl6LQsaCxwhDZhCirBs2Wv0Brx+pfIYdqxiB40bE6/5oaWYzUvPL6U6Yte tuXqdRFvESutfDLKSk2iGrvUdAkbjQvtxjnkC4lU+QdjjWBODkMzB1+cn0kBcd++eHPF t5thvHBc/MlSMi/25Hpg0pacgauim0YWGMgwMRQmmmeVHwAhqP+VnWSCraVZjNthU+Lb Sm30st1ENLEQkrO38541DtZbrORe4psBookyDlY+h0BVzoLvmT2hWQ0DT1MMb6MWunnJ L+nQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM531pOdd1+f0hOWhTmLXtXhf/f/vHvYCnmqeKYFVufHtvHc+a08yN 3GycfK+wJcxoknED5NsHvrc= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJzW2MewmfkeF39bRIJHVdmLK2NgXFIW32JkzPi0SIpm3PlmXIMuGPVl4AQ6q8FKsAidHGFkpg== X-Received: by 2002:adf:fd4f:: with SMTP id h15mr8051524wrs.397.1591863136557; Thu, 11 Jun 2020 01:12:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicholas Piggin To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: Nicholas Piggin , musl@lists.openwall.com, libc-dev@lists.llvm.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 18:12:01 +1000 Message-Id: <20200611081203.995112-1-npiggin@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.23.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [musl] Linux powerpc new system call instruction and ABI Thanks to everyone who has given feedback on the proposed new system call instruction and ABI, I think it has reached agreement and the implementation can be merged into Linux. I have a hacked glibc implementation (that doesn't do all the right HWCAP detection and misses a few things) that I've tested several things including some kernel selftests (involving signals and syscalls) with. System Call Vectored (scv) ABI ============================== The scv instruction is introduced with POWER9 / ISA3, it comes with an rfscv counter-part. The benefit of these instructions is performance (trading slower SRR0/1 with faster LR/CTR registers, and entering the kernel with MSR[EE] and MSR[RI] left enabled, which can reduce MSR updates. The scv instruction has 128 levels (not enough to cover the Linux system call space). Assignment and advertisement ---------------------------- The proposal is to assign scv levels conservatively, and advertise them with HWCAP feature bits as we add support for more. Linux has not enabled FSCR[SCV] yet, so executing the scv instruction will cause the kernel to log a "SCV facility unavilable" message, and deliver a SIGILL with ILL_ILLOPC to the process. Linux has defined a HWCAP2 bit PPC_FEATURE2_SCV for SCV support, but does not set it. This change allocates the zero level ('scv 0'), advertised with PPC_FEATURE2_SCV, which will be used to provide normal Linux system calls (equivalent to 'sc'). Attempting to execute scv with other levels will cause a SIGILL to be delivered the same as before, but will not log a "SCV facility unavailable" message (because the processor facility is enabled). Calling convention ------------------ The proposal is for scv 0 to provide the standard Linux system call ABI with the following differences from sc convention[1]: - lr is to be volatile across scv calls. This is necessary because the scv instruction clobbers lr. From previous discussion, this should be possible to deal with in GCC clobbers and CFI. - cr1 and cr5-cr7 are volatile. This matches the C ABI and would allow the kernel system call exit to avoid restoring the volatile cr registers (although we probably still would anyway to avoid information leaks). - Error handling: The consensus among kernel, glibc, and musl is to move to using negative return values in r3 rather than CR0[SO]=1 to indicate error, which matches most other architectures, and is closer to a function call. Notes ----- - r0,r4-r8 are documented as volatile in the ABI, but the kernel patch as submitted currently preserves them. This is to leave room for deciding which way to go with these. Some small benefit was found by preserving them[1] but I'm not convinced it's worth deviating from the C function call ABI just for this. Release code should follow the ABI. Previous discussions: https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2020-April/208691.html https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2020-April/209268.html [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/powerpc/syscall64-abi.rst [2] https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2020-April/209263.html The following patches to add scv support to Linux are posted to https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/ Nicholas Piggin (2): powerpc/64s/exception: treat NIA below __end_interrupts as soft-masked powerpc/64s: system call support for scv/rfscv instructions Thanks, Nick -- 2.23.0