Commit 70ed86f4 authored by Claudio Carvalho's avatar Claudio Carvalho Committed by Michael Ellerman
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powerpc: Add PowerPC Capabilities ELF note



Add the PowerPC name and the PPC_ELFNOTE_CAPABILITIES type in the
kernel binary ELF note. This type is a bitmap that can be used to
advertise kernel capabilities to userland.

This patch also defines PPCCAP_ULTRAVISOR_BIT as being the bit zero.

Suggested-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarClaudio Carvalho <cclaudio@linux.ibm.com>
[ maxiwell: Define the 'PowerPC' type in the elfnote.h ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarMaxiwell S. Garcia <maxiwell@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190829155021.2915-2-maxiwell@linux.ibm.com
parent a102f139
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/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
/*
 * PowerPC ELF notes.
 *
 * Copyright 2019, IBM Corporation
 */

#ifndef __ASM_POWERPC_ELFNOTE_H__
#define __ASM_POWERPC_ELFNOTE_H__

/*
 * These note types should live in a SHT_NOTE segment and have
 * "PowerPC" in the name field.
 */

/*
 * The capabilities supported/required by this kernel (bitmap).
 *
 * This type uses a bitmap as "desc" field. Each bit is described
 * in arch/powerpc/kernel/note.S
 */
#define PPC_ELFNOTE_CAPABILITIES 1

#endif /* __ASM_POWERPC_ELFNOTE_H__ */
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@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ obj-y := cputable.o ptrace.o syscalls.o \
				   dma-common.o
obj-$(CONFIG_PPC64)		+= setup_64.o sys_ppc32.o \
				   signal_64.o ptrace32.o \
				   paca.o nvram_64.o firmware.o
				   paca.o nvram_64.o firmware.o note.o
obj-$(CONFIG_VDSO32)		+= vdso32/
obj-$(CONFIG_PPC_WATCHDOG)	+= watchdog.o
obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT)	+= hw_breakpoint.o
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/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
/*
 * PowerPC ELF notes.
 *
 * Copyright 2019, IBM Corporation
 */

#include <linux/elfnote.h>
#include <asm/elfnote.h>

/*
 * Ultravisor-capable bit (PowerNV only).
 *
 * Bit 0 indicates that the powerpc kernel binary knows how to run in an
 * ultravisor-enabled system.
 *
 * In an ultravisor-enabled system, some machine resources are now controlled
 * by the ultravisor. If the kernel is not ultravisor-capable, but it ends up
 * being run on a machine with ultravisor, the kernel will probably crash
 * trying to access ultravisor resources. For instance, it may crash in early
 * boot trying to set the partition table entry 0.
 *
 * In an ultravisor-enabled system, a bootloader could warn the user or prevent
 * the kernel from being run if the PowerPC ultravisor capability doesn't exist
 * or the Ultravisor-capable bit is not set.
 */
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_POWERNV
#define PPCCAP_ULTRAVISOR_BIT		(1 << 0)
#else
#define PPCCAP_ULTRAVISOR_BIT		0
#endif

/*
 * Add the PowerPC Capabilities in the binary ELF note. It is a bitmap that
 * can be used to advertise kernel capabilities to userland.
 */
#define PPC_CAPABILITIES_BITMAP (PPCCAP_ULTRAVISOR_BIT)

ELFNOTE(PowerPC, PPC_ELFNOTE_CAPABILITIES,
	.long PPC_CAPABILITIES_BITMAP)