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authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2021-09-08 16:44:02 +0100
committerLaurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>2021-09-13 20:35:45 +0200
commita57e0c3657b764fa0311ffca2c72bd8dcd39e8af (patch)
treece2979b2b680f290b976fb4f21a49cab0d7c71dd /linux-user/qemu.h
parent5423e6d3a416342ee5857d02688c30b776574b66 (diff)
linux-user: Split safe-syscall macro into its own header
Split the safe-syscall macro from qemu.h into a new safe-syscall.h. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> Message-Id: <20210908154405.15417-7-peter.maydell@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
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diff --git a/linux-user/qemu.h b/linux-user/qemu.h
index 0cb7999057..a82a46236e 100644
--- a/linux-user/qemu.h
+++ b/linux-user/qemu.h
@@ -240,141 +240,6 @@ void probe_guest_base(const char *image_name,
#include "qemu/log.h"
-/* safe_syscall.S */
-
-/**
- * safe_syscall:
- * @int number: number of system call to make
- * ...: arguments to the system call
- *
- * Call a system call if guest signal not pending.
- * This has the same API as the libc syscall() function, except that it
- * may return -1 with errno == TARGET_ERESTARTSYS if a signal was pending.
- *
- * Returns: the system call result, or -1 with an error code in errno
- * (Errnos are host errnos; we rely on TARGET_ERESTARTSYS not clashing
- * with any of the host errno values.)
- */
-
-/*
- * A guide to using safe_syscall() to handle interactions between guest
- * syscalls and guest signals:
- *
- * Guest syscalls come in two flavours:
- *
- * (1) Non-interruptible syscalls
- *
- * These are guest syscalls that never get interrupted by signals and
- * so never return EINTR. They can be implemented straightforwardly in
- * QEMU: just make sure that if the implementation code has to make any
- * blocking calls that those calls are retried if they return EINTR.
- * It's also OK to implement these with safe_syscall, though it will be
- * a little less efficient if a signal is delivered at the 'wrong' moment.
- *
- * Some non-interruptible syscalls need to be handled using block_signals()
- * to block signals for the duration of the syscall. This mainly applies
- * to code which needs to modify the data structures used by the
- * host_signal_handler() function and the functions it calls, including
- * all syscalls which change the thread's signal mask.
- *
- * (2) Interruptible syscalls
- *
- * These are guest syscalls that can be interrupted by signals and
- * for which we need to either return EINTR or arrange for the guest
- * syscall to be restarted. This category includes both syscalls which
- * always restart (and in the kernel return -ERESTARTNOINTR), ones
- * which only restart if there is no handler (kernel returns -ERESTARTNOHAND
- * or -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK), and the most common kind which restart
- * if the handler was registered with SA_RESTART (kernel returns
- * -ERESTARTSYS). System calls which are only interruptible in some
- * situations (like 'open') also need to be handled this way.
- *
- * Here it is important that the host syscall is made
- * via this safe_syscall() function, and *not* via the host libc.
- * If the host libc is used then the implementation will appear to work
- * most of the time, but there will be a race condition where a
- * signal could arrive just before we make the host syscall inside libc,
- * and then then guest syscall will not correctly be interrupted.
- * Instead the implementation of the guest syscall can use the safe_syscall
- * function but otherwise just return the result or errno in the usual
- * way; the main loop code will take care of restarting the syscall
- * if appropriate.
- *
- * (If the implementation needs to make multiple host syscalls this is
- * OK; any which might really block must be via safe_syscall(); for those
- * which are only technically blocking (ie which we know in practice won't
- * stay in the host kernel indefinitely) it's OK to use libc if necessary.
- * You must be able to cope with backing out correctly if some safe_syscall
- * you make in the implementation returns either -TARGET_ERESTARTSYS or
- * EINTR though.)
- *
- * block_signals() cannot be used for interruptible syscalls.
- *
- *
- * How and why the safe_syscall implementation works:
- *
- * The basic setup is that we make the host syscall via a known
- * section of host native assembly. If a signal occurs, our signal
- * handler checks the interrupted host PC against the addresse of that
- * known section. If the PC is before or at the address of the syscall
- * instruction then we change the PC to point at a "return
- * -TARGET_ERESTARTSYS" code path instead, and then exit the signal handler
- * (causing the safe_syscall() call to immediately return that value).
- * Then in the main.c loop if we see this magic return value we adjust
- * the guest PC to wind it back to before the system call, and invoke
- * the guest signal handler as usual.
- *
- * This winding-back will happen in two cases:
- * (1) signal came in just before we took the host syscall (a race);
- * in this case we'll take the guest signal and have another go
- * at the syscall afterwards, and this is indistinguishable for the
- * guest from the timing having been different such that the guest
- * signal really did win the race
- * (2) signal came in while the host syscall was blocking, and the
- * host kernel decided the syscall should be restarted;
- * in this case we want to restart the guest syscall also, and so
- * rewinding is the right thing. (Note that "restart" semantics mean
- * "first call the signal handler, then reattempt the syscall".)
- * The other situation to consider is when a signal came in while the
- * host syscall was blocking, and the host kernel decided that the syscall
- * should not be restarted; in this case QEMU's host signal handler will
- * be invoked with the PC pointing just after the syscall instruction,
- * with registers indicating an EINTR return; the special code in the
- * handler will not kick in, and we will return EINTR to the guest as
- * we should.
- *
- * Notice that we can leave the host kernel to make the decision for
- * us about whether to do a restart of the syscall or not; we do not
- * need to check SA_RESTART flags in QEMU or distinguish the various
- * kinds of restartability.
- */
-#ifdef HAVE_SAFE_SYSCALL
-/* The core part of this function is implemented in assembly */
-extern long safe_syscall_base(int *pending, long number, ...);
-
-#define safe_syscall(...) \
- ({ \
- long ret_; \
- int *psp_ = &((TaskState *)thread_cpu->opaque)->signal_pending; \
- ret_ = safe_syscall_base(psp_, __VA_ARGS__); \
- if (is_error(ret_)) { \
- errno = -ret_; \
- ret_ = -1; \
- } \
- ret_; \
- })
-
-#else
-
-/*
- * Fallback for architectures which don't yet provide a safe-syscall assembly
- * fragment; note that this is racy!
- * This should go away when all host architectures have been updated.
- */
-#define safe_syscall syscall
-
-#endif
-
/* syscall.c */
int host_to_target_waitstatus(int status);