Merge tag 'fork-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux

Pull fork cleanups from Christian Brauner:
 "This is cleanup series from when we reworked a chunk of the process
  creation paths in the kernel and switched to struct
  {kernel_}clone_args.

  High-level this does two main things:

   - Remove the double export of both do_fork() and _do_fork() where
     do_fork() used the incosistent legacy clone calling convention.

     Now we only export _do_fork() which is based on struct
     kernel_clone_args.

   - Remove the copy_thread_tls()/copy_thread() split making the
     architecture specific HAVE_COYP_THREAD_TLS config option obsolete.

  This switches all remaining architectures to select
  HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS and thus to the copy_thread_tls() calling
  convention. The current split makes the process creation codepaths
  more convoluted than they need to be. Each architecture has their own
  copy_thread() function unless it selects HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS then it
  has a copy_thread_tls() function.

  The split is not needed anymore nowadays, all architectures support
  CLONE_SETTLS but quite a few of them never bothered to select
  HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS and instead simply continued to use copy_thread()
  and use the old calling convention. Removing this split cleans up the
  process creation codepaths and paves the way for implementing clone3()
  on such architectures since it requires the copy_thread_tls() calling
  convention.

  After having made each architectures support copy_thread_tls() this
  series simply renames that function back to copy_thread(). It also
  switches all architectures that call do_fork() directly over to
  _do_fork() and the struct kernel_clone_args calling convention. This
  is a corollary of switching the architectures that did not yet support
  it over to copy_thread_tls() since do_fork() is conditional on not
  supporting copy_thread_tls() (Mostly because it lacks a separate
  argument for tls which is trivial to fix but there's no need for this
  function to exist.).

  The do_fork() removal is in itself already useful as it allows to to
  remove the export of both do_fork() and _do_fork() we currently have
  in favor of only _do_fork(). This has already been discussed back when
  we added clone3(). The legacy clone() calling convention is - as is
  probably well-known - somewhat odd:

    #
    # ABI hall of shame
    #
    config CLONE_BACKWARDS
    config CLONE_BACKWARDS2
    config CLONE_BACKWARDS3

  that is aggravated by the fact that some architectures such as sparc
  follow the CLONE_BACKWARDSx calling convention but don't really select
  the corresponding config option since they call do_fork() directly.

  So do_fork() enforces a somewhat arbitrary calling convention in the
  first place that doesn't really help the individual architectures that
  deviate from it. They can thus simply be switched to _do_fork()
  enforcing a single calling convention. (I really hope that any new
  architectures will __not__ try to implement their own calling
  conventions...)

  Most architectures already have made a similar switch (m68k comes to
  mind).

  Overall this removes more code than it adds even with a good portion
  of added comments. It simplifies a chunk of arch specific assembly
  either by moving the code into C or by simply rewriting the assembly.

  Architectures that have been touched in non-trivial ways have all been
  actually boot and stress tested: sparc and ia64 have been tested with
  Debian 9 images. They are the two architectures which have been
  touched the most. All non-trivial changes to architectures have seen
  acks from the relevant maintainers. nios2 with a custom built
  buildroot image. h8300 I couldn't get something bootable to test on
  but the changes have been fairly automatic and I'm sure we'll hear
  people yell if I broke something there.

  All other architectures that have been touched in trivial ways have
  been compile tested for each single patch of the series via git rebase
  -x "make ..." v5.8-rc2. arm{64} and x86{_64} have been boot tested
  even though they have just been trivially touched (removal of the
  HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS macro from their Kconfig) because well they are
  basically "core architectures" and since it is trivial to get your
  hands on a useable image"

* tag 'fork-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  arch: rename copy_thread_tls() back to copy_thread()
  arch: remove HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
  unicore: switch to copy_thread_tls()
  sh: switch to copy_thread_tls()
  nds32: switch to copy_thread_tls()
  microblaze: switch to copy_thread_tls()
  hexagon: switch to copy_thread_tls()
  c6x: switch to copy_thread_tls()
  alpha: switch to copy_thread_tls()
  fork: remove do_fork()
  h8300: select HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS, switch to kernel_clone_args
  nios2: enable HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS, switch to kernel_clone_args
  ia64: enable HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS, switch to kernel_clone_args
  sparc: unconditionally enable HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
  sparc: share process creation helpers between sparc and sparc64
  sparc64: enable HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
  fork: fold legacy_clone_args_valid() into _do_fork()

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched/task.h b/include/linux/sched/task.h
index 27b4fa454c80..ae3060f0b0c9 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/task.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/task.h
@@ -66,22 +66,9 @@ extern void fork_init(void);
 
 extern void release_task(struct task_struct * p);
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
-extern int copy_thread_tls(unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long,
-			struct task_struct *, unsigned long);
-#else
 extern int copy_thread(unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long,
-			struct task_struct *);
+		       struct task_struct *, unsigned long);
 
-/* Architectures that haven't opted into copy_thread_tls get the tls argument
- * via pt_regs, so ignore the tls argument passed via C. */
-static inline int copy_thread_tls(
-		unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long sp, unsigned long arg,
-		struct task_struct *p, unsigned long tls)
-{
-	return copy_thread(clone_flags, sp, arg, p);
-}
-#endif
 extern void flush_thread(void);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_EXIT_THREAD
@@ -97,8 +84,6 @@ extern void exit_files(struct task_struct *);
 extern void exit_itimers(struct signal_struct *);
 
 extern long _do_fork(struct kernel_clone_args *kargs);
-extern bool legacy_clone_args_valid(const struct kernel_clone_args *kargs);
-extern long do_fork(unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long, int __user *, int __user *);
 struct task_struct *fork_idle(int);
 struct mm_struct *copy_init_mm(void);
 extern pid_t kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long flags);