sparc: switch to kernel_clone()

The old _do_fork() helper is removed in favor of the new kernel_clone() helper.
The latter adheres to naming conventions for kernel internal syscall helpers.

Signed-

sparc: switch to kernel_clone()

The old _do_fork() helper is removed in favor of the new kernel_clone() helper.
The latter adheres to naming conventions for kernel internal syscall helpers.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200819104655.436656-7-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com

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Merge v5.9-rc1 into drm-misc-next

Sam needs 5.9-rc1 to have dev_err_probe in to merge some patches.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>

Mgerge remote-tracking branch 'torvalds/master' into perf/core

To sync headers, for instance, in this case tools/perf was ahead of
upstream till Linus merged tip/perf/core to get the
PERF_RECORD_TEX

Mgerge remote-tracking branch 'torvalds/master' into perf/core

To sync headers, for instance, in this case tools/perf was ahead of
upstream till Linus merged tip/perf/core to get the
PERF_RECORD_TEXT_POKE changes:

Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h' differs from latest version at 'include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h'
diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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Merge tag 'fork-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux

Pull fork cleanups from Christian Brauner:
"This is cleanup series from when we reworked a chunk of the process

Merge tag 'fork-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux

Pull fork cleanups from Christian Brauner:
"This is cleanup series from when we reworked a chunk of the process
creation paths in the kernel and switched to struct
{kernel_}clone_args.

High-level this does two main things:

- Remove the double export of both do_fork() and _do_fork() where
do_fork() used the incosistent legacy clone calling convention.

Now we only export _do_fork() which is based on struct
kernel_clone_args.

- Remove the copy_thread_tls()/copy_thread() split making the
architecture specific HAVE_COYP_THREAD_TLS config option obsolete.

This switches all remaining architectures to select
HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS and thus to the copy_thread_tls() calling
convention. The current split makes the process creation codepaths
more convoluted than they need to be. Each architecture has their own
copy_thread() function unless it selects HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS then it
has a copy_thread_tls() function.

The split is not needed anymore nowadays, all architectures support
CLONE_SETTLS but quite a few of them never bothered to select
HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS and instead simply continued to use copy_thread()
and use the old calling convention. Removing this split cleans up the
process creation codepaths and paves the way for implementing clone3()
on such architectures since it requires the copy_thread_tls() calling
convention.

After having made each architectures support copy_thread_tls() this
series simply renames that function back to copy_thread(). It also
switches all architectures that call do_fork() directly over to
_do_fork() and the struct kernel_clone_args calling convention. This
is a corollary of switching the architectures that did not yet support
it over to copy_thread_tls() since do_fork() is conditional on not
supporting copy_thread_tls() (Mostly because it lacks a separate
argument for tls which is trivial to fix but there's no need for this
function to exist.).

The do_fork() removal is in itself already useful as it allows to to
remove the export of both do_fork() and _do_fork() we currently have
in favor of only _do_fork(). This has already been discussed back when
we added clone3(). The legacy clone() calling convention is - as is
probably well-known - somewhat odd:

#
# ABI hall of shame
#
config CLONE_BACKWARDS
config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
config CLONE_BACKWARDS3

that is aggravated by the fact that some architectures such as sparc
follow the CLONE_BACKWARDSx calling convention but don't really select
the corresponding config option since they call do_fork() directly.

So do_fork() enforces a somewhat arbitrary calling convention in the
first place that doesn't really help the individual architectures that
deviate from it. They can thus simply be switched to _do_fork()
enforcing a single calling convention. (I really hope that any new
architectures will __not__ try to implement their own calling
conventions...)

Most architectures already have made a similar switch (m68k comes to
mind).

Overall this removes more code than it adds even with a good portion
of added comments. It simplifies a chunk of arch specific assembly
either by moving the code into C or by simply rewriting the assembly.

Architectures that have been touched in non-trivial ways have all been
actually boot and stress tested: sparc and ia64 have been tested with
Debian 9 images. They are the two architectures which have been
touched the most. All non-trivial changes to architectures have seen
acks from the relevant maintainers. nios2 with a custom built
buildroot image. h8300 I couldn't get something bootable to test on
but the changes have been fairly automatic and I'm sure we'll hear
people yell if I broke something there.

All other architectures that have been touched in trivial ways have
been compile tested for each single patch of the series via git rebase
-x "make ..." v5.8-rc2. arm{64} and x86{_64} have been boot tested
even though they have just been trivially touched (removal of the
HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS macro from their Kconfig) because well they are
basically "core architectures" and since it is trivial to get your
hands on a useable image"

* tag 'fork-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
arch: rename copy_thread_tls() back to copy_thread()
arch: remove HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
unicore: switch to copy_thread_tls()
sh: switch to copy_thread_tls()
nds32: switch to copy_thread_tls()
microblaze: switch to copy_thread_tls()
hexagon: switch to copy_thread_tls()
c6x: switch to copy_thread_tls()
alpha: switch to copy_thread_tls()
fork: remove do_fork()
h8300: select HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS, switch to kernel_clone_args
nios2: enable HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS, switch to kernel_clone_args
ia64: enable HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS, switch to kernel_clone_args
sparc: unconditionally enable HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
sparc: share process creation helpers between sparc and sparc64
sparc64: enable HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
fork: fold legacy_clone_args_valid() into _do_fork()

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arch: rename copy_thread_tls() back to copy_thread()

Now that HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS has been removed, rename copy_thread_tls()
back simply copy_thread(). It's a simpler name, and doesn't imply that o

arch: rename copy_thread_tls() back to copy_thread()

Now that HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS has been removed, rename copy_thread_tls()
back simply copy_thread(). It's a simpler name, and doesn't imply that only
tls is copied here. This finishes an outstanding chunk of internal process
creation work since we've added clone3().

Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>A
Acked-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>A
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>

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sparc: share process creation helpers between sparc and sparc64

As promised in the previous patch, this moves the process creation
helpers into a common process.c file that is shared between sparc a

sparc: share process creation helpers between sparc and sparc64

As promised in the previous patch, this moves the process creation
helpers into a common process.c file that is shared between sparc and
sparc64. It allows us to get rid of quite a bit custom assembler and the
to remove the separe 32bit specific sparc_do_fork() call.

One thing to note, is that when clone() was called with a separate stack
for the child the assembler would align it. But copy_thread() has always
been doing that too so that line wasn't needed and can thus simply be
removed.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-csky@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200512171527.570109-3-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com

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Merge branch 'topic/pcsp-fix' into topic/misc

Merge branch 'fix/hda' into topic/hda

Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc6' into core/debug

Merge branch 'linus' into core/futexes

Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc2' into topic/asoc

Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc2' into core/locking

Conflicts:
arch/um/include/asm/system.h

Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc2' into x86/pci-ioapic-boot-irq-quirks

Merge branch 'linus' into stackprotector

Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
include/asm-x86/pda.h

Merge branch 'master' into next

Merge branches 'boards' and 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hskinnemoen/avr32-2.6

Merge branch 'linus' into test

Conflicts:
MAINTAINERS
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c
drivers/acpi/Kconfig
drivers/pnp/Makefile
drivers/pnp/quirks.c

Signed-off-by: Le

Merge branch 'linus' into test

Conflicts:
MAINTAINERS
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c
drivers/acpi/Kconfig
drivers/pnp/Makefile
drivers/pnp/quirks.c

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

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Merge branch 'master' into for-upstream

Conflicts:

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb
drivers/Makefile

Merge branches 'topic/asoc', 'topic/misc-fixes', 'topic/ps3-csbits' and 'topic/staging-fixes' into for-linus

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arjan/linux-2.6-hrtimer into timers/range-hrtimers

Merge branches 'timers/clocksource', 'timers/hrtimers', 'timers/nohz', 'timers/ntp', 'timers/posixtimers' and 'timers/debug' into v28-timers-for-linus

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Conflicts:

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
arch/sh/include/asm/elf.h

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Conflicts:

drivers/power/Makefile

Merge commit 'linus/master' into merge-linus

Conflicts:

arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c

Merge branch 'linus' into sched/urgent