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s390: add a system call for guarded storage

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This adds a new system call to enable the use of guarded storage for
user space processes. The system call takes two arguments, a command
and pointer to a guarded storage control block:

    s390_guarded_storage(int command, struct gs_cb *gs_cb);

The second argument is relevant only for the GS_SET_BC_CB command.

The commands in detail:

0 - GS_ENABLE
    Enable the guarded storage facility for the current task. The
    initial content of the guarded storage control block will be
    all zeros. After the enablement the user space code can use
    load-guarded-storage-controls instruction (LGSC) to load an
    arbitrary control block. While a task is enabled the kernel
    will save and restore the current content of the guarded
    storage registers on context switch.
1 - GS_DISABLE
    Disables the use of the guarded storage facility for the current
    task. The kernel will cease to save and restore the content of
    the guarded storage registers, the task specific content of
    these registers is lost.
2 - GS_SET_BC_CB
    Set a broadcast guarded storage control block. This is called
    per thread and stores a specific guarded storage control block
    in the task struct of the current task. This control block will
    be used for the broadcast event GS_BROADCAST.
3 - GS_CLEAR_BC_CB
    Clears the broadcast guarded storage control block. The guarded-
    storage control block is removed from the task struct that was
    established by GS_SET_BC_CB.
4 - GS_BROADCAST
    Sends a broadcast to all thread siblings of the current task.
    Every sibling that has established a broadcast guarded storage
    control block will load this control block and will be enabled
    for guarded storage. The broadcast guarded storage control block
    is used up, a second broadcast without a refresh of the stored
    control block with GS_SET_BC_CB will not have any effect.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Martin Schwidefsky 2016-01-26 14:10:34 +01:00
parent 093b995e3b
commit 916cda1aa1
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@ -409,6 +409,7 @@ typedef struct elf64_shdr {
#define NT_S390_TDB 0x308 /* s390 transaction diagnostic block */
#define NT_S390_VXRS_LOW 0x309 /* s390 vector registers 0-15 upper half */
#define NT_S390_VXRS_HIGH 0x30a /* s390 vector registers 16-31 */
#define NT_S390_GS_CB 0x30b /* s390 guarded storage registers */
#define NT_ARM_VFP 0x400 /* ARM VFP/NEON registers */
#define NT_ARM_TLS 0x401 /* ARM TLS register */
#define NT_ARM_HW_BREAK 0x402 /* ARM hardware breakpoint registers */