A potential fix for arm64's: sh`forkshell child-process path after fork sometimes has a bad stack pointer value

Otacílio otacilio.neto at bsd.com.br
Sun Mar 19 14:18:27 UTC 2017


Em 14/02/2017 13:35, Mark Millard escreveu:
> The following change has let my test run for 8.5 hours so far without a
> fork-failure in sh`forkshell :
>
> # svnlite diff /usr/src/sys/arm64/arm64/swtch.S
> Index: /usr/src/sys/arm64/arm64/swtch.S
> ===================================================================
> --- /usr/src/sys/arm64/arm64/swtch.S    (revision 312982)
> +++ /usr/src/sys/arm64/arm64/swtch.S    (working copy)
> @@ -241,6 +241,12 @@
>          mov     fp, #0  /* Stack traceback stops here. */
>          bl      _C_LABEL(fork_exit)
>   
> +       /*
> +        * Disable interrupts to avoid
> +        * overwriting sp_el0 and spsr_el1 by an IRQ exception.
> +        */
> +       msr     daifset, #2
> +
>          /* Restore sp and lr */
>          ldp     x0, x1, [sp]
>          msr     sp_el0, x0
> @@ -263,12 +269,6 @@
>          ldp     x28, x29, [sp, #TF_X + 28 * 8]
>          /* Skip x30 as it was restored above as lr */
>   
> -       /*
> -        * Disable interrupts to avoid
> -        * overwriting spsr_el1 by an IRQ exception.
> -        */
> -       msr     daifset, #2
> -
>          /* Restore elr and spsr */
>          ldp     x0, x1, [sp, #16]
>          msr     elr_el1, x0
>
> I'm going to switch to attempting a self-hosted buildworld
> buildkernel again.
>
> ===
> Mark Millard
> markmi at dsl-only.net
>
>
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This patch or some other about this bug was committed to HEAD?

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-Otacilio



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