[PATCH 5/6] arm64: Advertise CPUs capable of running 32-bit applcations in sysfs
Greg Kroah-Hartman
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Wed Oct 28 04:37:46 EDT 2020
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 09:51:17PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> Since 32-bit applications will be killed if they are caught trying to
> execute on a 64-bit-only CPU in a mismatched system, advertise the set
> of 32-bit capable CPUs to userspace in sysfs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
> ---
> .../ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 8 ++++++++
> arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
> index b555df825447..19893fb8e870 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
> @@ -472,6 +472,14 @@ Description: AArch64 CPU registers
> 'identification' directory exposes the CPU ID registers for
> identifying model and revision of the CPU.
>
> +What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
> +Date: October 2020
> +Contact: Linux ARM Kernel Mailing list <linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org>
> +Description: Identifies the subset of CPUs in the system that can execute
> + AArch32 (32-bit ARM) applications. If absent, then all or none
> + of the CPUs can execute AArch32 applications and execve() will
> + behave accordingly.
How is this value represented? A hint here would be nice.
> +
> What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/cpu_capacity
> Date: December 2016
> Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> index 2e2219cbd54c..9f29d4d1ef7e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
> #include <linux/crash_dump.h>
> #include <linux/sort.h>
> #include <linux/stop_machine.h>
> +#include <linux/sysfs.h>
> #include <linux/types.h>
> #include <linux/mm.h>
> #include <linux/cpu.h>
> @@ -1236,6 +1237,24 @@ bool system_has_mismatched_32bit_el0(void)
> return fld == ID_AA64PFR0_EL0_64BIT_ONLY;
> }
>
> +static ssize_t aarch32_el0_show(struct kobject *kobj,
> + struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> +{
> + const struct cpumask *mask = system_32bit_el0_cpumask();
> + return sprintf(buf, "%*pbl\n", cpumask_pr_args(mask));
sysfs_emit()?
And a blank line to make checkpatch.pl happy :)
> +}
> +static const struct kobj_attribute aarch32_el0_attr = __ATTR_RO(aarch32_el0);
DEVICE_ATTR_RO()?
> +
> +static int __init aarch32_el0_sysfs_init(void)
> +{
> + if (!__allow_mismatched_32bit_el0)
> + return 0;
> +
> + return sysfs_create_file(&cpu_subsys.dev_root->kobj,
> + &aarch32_el0_attr.attr);
device_create_file() please, dev_root is a struct device, no need to
"thunk" down to a "raw" sysfs call.
thanks,
greg k-h
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