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| author | Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> | 2008-07-22 04:48:46 +1000 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2008-07-25 15:44:39 +1000 |
| commit | 483fad1c3fa1060d7e6710e84a065ad514571739 (patch) | |
| tree | 98c2da31a58c71d1ae9c808bdf232cbbbe060550 /fs/binfmt_elf.c | |
| parent | e9f76354ce83a20c7768ad37caa033f6506b4f96 (diff) | |
ELF loader support for auxvec base platform string
Some IBM POWER-based platforms have the ability to run in a
mode which mostly appears to the OS as a different processor from the
actual hardware. For example, a Power6 system may appear to be a
Power5+, which makes the AT_PLATFORM value "power5+". This means that
programs are restricted to the ISA supported by Power5+;
Power6-specific instructions are treated as illegal.
However, some applications (virtual machines, optimized libraries) can
benefit from knowledge of the underlying CPU model. A new aux vector
entry, AT_BASE_PLATFORM, will denote the actual hardware. For
example, on a Power6 system in Power5+ compatibility mode, AT_PLATFORM
will be "power5+" and AT_BASE_PLATFORM will be "power6". The idea is
that AT_PLATFORM indicates the instruction set supported, while
AT_BASE_PLATFORM indicates the underlying microarchitecture.
If the architecture has defined ELF_BASE_PLATFORM, copy that value to
the user stack in the same manner as ELF_PLATFORM.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/binfmt_elf.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/binfmt_elf.c | 28 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c index 639d2d8b571..742c8f53048 100644 --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c @@ -131,6 +131,15 @@ static int padzero(unsigned long elf_bss) #define STACK_ALLOC(sp, len) ({ sp -= len ; sp; }) #endif +#ifndef ELF_BASE_PLATFORM +/* + * AT_BASE_PLATFORM indicates the "real" hardware/microarchitecture. + * If the arch defines ELF_BASE_PLATFORM (in asm/elf.h), the value + * will be copied to the user stack in the same manner as AT_PLATFORM. + */ +#define ELF_BASE_PLATFORM NULL +#endif + static int create_elf_tables(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct elfhdr *exec, unsigned long load_addr, unsigned long interp_load_addr) @@ -142,7 +151,9 @@ create_elf_tables(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct elfhdr *exec, elf_addr_t __user *envp; elf_addr_t __user *sp; elf_addr_t __user *u_platform; + elf_addr_t __user *u_base_platform; const char *k_platform = ELF_PLATFORM; + const char *k_base_platform = ELF_BASE_PLATFORM; int items; elf_addr_t *elf_info; int ei_index = 0; @@ -172,6 +183,19 @@ create_elf_tables(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct elfhdr *exec, return -EFAULT; } + /* + * If this architecture has a "base" platform capability + * string, copy it to userspace. + */ + u_base_platform = NULL; + if (k_base_platform) { + size_t len = strlen(k_base_platform) + 1; + + u_base_platform = (elf_addr_t __user *)STACK_ALLOC(p, len); + if (__copy_to_user(u_base_platform, k_base_platform, len)) + return -EFAULT; + } + /* Create the ELF interpreter info */ elf_info = (elf_addr_t *)current->mm->saved_auxv; /* update AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE if the number of NEW_AUX_ENT() changes */ @@ -209,6 +233,10 @@ create_elf_tables(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct elfhdr *exec, NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_PLATFORM, (elf_addr_t)(unsigned long)u_platform); } + if (k_base_platform) { + NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_BASE_PLATFORM, + (elf_addr_t)(unsigned long)u_base_platform); + } if (bprm->interp_flags & BINPRM_FLAGS_EXECFD) { NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_EXECFD, bprm->interp_data); } |