Re: [PATCH for 5.2 07/12] rseq/selftests: s390: use trap4 for RSEQ_SIG

From: shuah
Date: Thu May 16 2019 - 16:41:34 EST


Hi Mathieu,

On 4/29/19 9:27 AM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>

Use trap4 as the guard instruction for the restartable sequence abort
handler.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-s390.h | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-s390.h b/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-s390.h
index 7c4f3a70b6c7..1d05c5187ae6 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-s390.h
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq-s390.h
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1 OR MIT */
-#define RSEQ_SIG 0x53053053
+/*
+ * RSEQ_SIG uses the trap4 instruction. As Linux does not make use of the
+ * access-register mode nor the linkage stack this instruction will always
+ * cause a special-operation exception (the trap-enabled bit in the DUCT
+ * is and will stay 0). The instruction pattern is
+ * b2 ff 0f ff trap4 4095(%r0)
+ */
+#define RSEQ_SIG 0xB2FF0FFF
#define rseq_smp_mb() __asm__ __volatile__ ("bcr 15,0" ::: "memory")
#define rseq_smp_rmb() rseq_smp_mb()


I generated my pull request for Linus and did a sanity check and ran
into merge conflict on this patch. Looks like this is already in
Linus's tree.

Can you confirm!

I have to drop this patch and regenerate my pull request. Can you
confirm!

thanks,
-- Shuah