ARC: Signal handling

Includes following fixes courtesy review by Al-Viro

* Tracer poke to Callee-regs were lost

  Before going off into do_signal( ) we save the user-mode callee regs
  (as they are not saved by default as part of pt_regs). This is to make
  sure that that a Tracer (if tracing related signal) is able to do likes
  of PEEKUSR(callee-reg).

  However in return path we were simply discarding the user-mode callee
  regs, which would break a POKEUSR(callee-reg) from a tracer.

* Issue related to multiple syscall restarts are addressed in next patch

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arc/include/asm/signal.h b/arch/arc/include/asm/signal.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fad62f7f42d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/signal.h
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2004, 2007-2010, 2011-2012 Synopsys, Inc. (www.synopsys.com)
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * Amit Bhor, Sameer Dhavale: Codito Technologies 2004
+ */
+
+#ifndef _ASM_ARC_SIGNAL_H
+#define _ASM_ARC_SIGNAL_H
+
+/*
+ * This is much needed for ARC sigreturn optimization.
+ * This allows uClibc to piggback the addr of a sigreturn stub in sigaction,
+ * which allows sigreturn based re-entry into kernel after handling signal.
+ * W/o this kernel needs to "synthesize" the sigreturn trampoline on user
+ * mode stack which in turn forces the following:
+ * -TLB Flush (after making the stack page executable)
+ * -Cache line Flush (to make I/D Cache lines coherent)
+ */
+#define SA_RESTORER	0x04000000
+
+#include <asm-generic/signal.h>
+
+#endif /* _ASM_ARC_SIGNAL_H */