[ARM] 3105/4: ARM EABI: new syscall entry convention

Patch from Nicolas Pitre

For a while we wanted to change the way syscalls were called on ARM.
Instead of encoding the syscall number in the swi instruction which
requires reading back the instruction from memory to extract that number
and polluting the data cache, it was decided that simply storing the
syscall number into r7 would be more efficient. Since this represents
an ABI change then making that change at the same time as EABI support
is the right thing to do.

It is now expected that EABI user space binaries put the syscall number
into r7 and use "swi 0" to call the kernel. Syscall register argument
are also expected to have "EABI arrangement" i.e. 64-bit arguments
should be put in a pair of registers from an even register number.

Example with long ftruncate64(unsigned int fd, loff_t length):

	legacy ABI:
	- put fd into r0
	- put length into r1-r2
	- use "swi #(0x900000 + 194)" to call the kernel

	new ARM EABI:
	- put fd into r0
	- put length into r2-r3 (skipping over r1)
	- put 194 into r7
	- use "swi 0" to call the kernel

Note that it is important to use 0 for the swi argument as backward
compatibility with legacy ABI user space relies on this.
The syscall macros in asm-arm/unistd.h were also updated to support
both ABIs and implement the right call method automatically.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This commit is contained in:
Nicolas Pitre
2006-01-14 16:31:29 +00:00
committed by Russell King
parent ba95e4e4a0
commit 3f2829a315
3 changed files with 48 additions and 37 deletions

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@ -98,20 +98,14 @@ ENTRY(ret_from_fork)
run on an ARM7 and we can save a couple of instructions.
--pb */
#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_ARM710
.macro arm710_bug_check, instr, temp
and \temp, \instr, #0x0f000000 @ check for SWI
teq \temp, #0x0f000000
bne .Larm700bug
.endm
.Larm700bug:
#define A710(code...) code
.Larm710bug:
ldmia sp, {r0 - lr}^ @ Get calling r0 - lr
mov r0, r0
add sp, sp, #S_FRAME_SIZE
subs pc, lr, #4
#else
.macro arm710_bug_check, instr, temp
.endm
#define A710(code...)
#endif
.align 5
@ -129,14 +123,24 @@ ENTRY(vector_swi)
/*
* Get the system call number.
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_ARM_THUMB
#if defined(CONFIG_AEABI)
@ syscall number is in scno (r7) already.
A710( ldr ip, [lr, #-4] @ get SWI instruction )
A710( and ip, ip, #0x0f000000 @ check for SWI )
A710( teq ip, #0x0f000000 )
A710( bne .Larm710bug )
#elif defined(CONFIG_ARM_THUMB)
tst r8, #PSR_T_BIT @ this is SPSR from save_user_regs
addne scno, r7, #__NR_SYSCALL_BASE @ put OS number in
ldreq scno, [lr, #-4]
#else
ldr scno, [lr, #-4] @ get SWI instruction
A710( and ip, scno, #0x0f000000 @ check for SWI )
A710( teq ip, #0x0f000000 )
A710( bne .Larm710bug )
#endif
arm710_bug_check scno, ip
#ifdef CONFIG_ALIGNMENT_TRAP
ldr ip, __cr_alignment
@ -145,18 +149,19 @@ ENTRY(vector_swi)
#endif
enable_irq
stmdb sp!, {r4, r5} @ push fifth and sixth args
get_thread_info tsk
ldr ip, [tsk, #TI_FLAGS] @ check for syscall tracing
#ifndef CONFIG_AEABI
bic scno, scno, #0xff000000 @ mask off SWI op-code
eor scno, scno, #__NR_SYSCALL_BASE @ check OS number
#endif
adr tbl, sys_call_table @ load syscall table pointer
stmdb sp!, {r4, r5} @ push fifth and sixth args
tst ip, #_TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE @ are we tracing syscalls?
bne __sys_trace
adr lr, ret_fast_syscall @ return address
cmp scno, #NR_syscalls @ check upper syscall limit
adr lr, ret_fast_syscall @ return address
ldrcc pc, [tbl, scno, lsl #2] @ call sys_* routine
add r1, sp, #S_OFF
@ -207,6 +212,7 @@ ENTRY(sys_call_table)
@ r8 = syscall table
.type sys_syscall, #function
sys_syscall:
#ifndef CONFIG_AEABI
eor scno, r0, #__NR_SYSCALL_BASE
cmp scno, #__NR_syscall - __NR_SYSCALL_BASE
cmpne scno, #NR_syscalls @ check range
@ -216,6 +222,7 @@ sys_syscall:
movlo r2, r3
movlo r3, r4
ldrlo pc, [tbl, scno, lsl #2]
#endif
b sys_ni_syscall
sys_fork_wrapper: