linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] x86: xsave/xrstor support, ucontext

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Date:	Mon, 19 May 2008 17:04:24 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
CC:	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>, mingo@...e.hu,
	hpa@...or.com, tglx@...utronix.de, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, roland@...hat.com, drepper@...hat.com,
	Hongjiu.lu@...el.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	arjan@...ux.intel.com, rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk, dan@...ian.org,
	asit.k.mallick@...el.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] x86: xsave/xrstor support, ucontext_t extensions


> The de-facto ABI for signal delivery and sigreturn is unfortunately
> based on fairly fixed-layout structs on the stack (sigframes). The
> only flexibility there that I've found is the sigcontext's fpstate
> pointer which allows the fpstate to be located elsewhere.

One sure 100% compatible way would be to only change the signal layout once
the application used anything that needs XSAVE/XRSTOR. But implementing 
that would be likely complicated and I'm not sure it's worth it.

I don't remember that much breakage when the FXSAVE support was 
introduced on i386. That already changed these data structures.

> Another idea is that marking non-siginfo sigframes could be done
> by adding a sys_xsave_sigreturn() and letting those sigframes
> have a return address pointing to a vsyscall that invokes this
> new syscall.

That sounds easy enough. x86-64 right now doesn't use signal vsyscalls but
there is no principle reason it can't.

-Andi
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