ARM: allow alignment fault mode to be configured at kernel boot

Some glibc versions intentionally create lots of alignment faults in
their gconv code, which if not fixed up, results in segfaults during
boot.  This can prevent systems booting properly.

There is no clear hard-configurable default for this; the desired
default depends on the nature of the userspace which is going to be
booted.

So, provide a way for the alignment fault handler to be configured via
the kernel command line.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 826b6e1483166d499ed9de7c2240dc35eb7d990a..e7848a0d99ebc8b04e9df1346a424827c31234cc 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -315,6 +315,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
        aic79xx=        [HW,SCSI]
                        See Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt.
 
+       alignment=      [KNL,ARM]
+                       Allow the default userspace alignment fault handler
+                       behaviour to be specified.  Bit 0 enables warnings,
+                       bit 1 enables fixups, and bit 2 sends a segfault.
+
        amd_iommu=      [HW,X86-84]
                        Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system.
                        Possible values are:

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c b/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c
index b270d6228fe26ab7dea9a8e4d4c1f1bdeb804667..62820eda84d9ea89bb1ec729b8934c626a74c20a 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
  * published by the Free Software Foundation.
  */
+#include <linux/moduleparam.h>
 #include <linux/compiler.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/errno.h>
@@ -77,6 +78,8 @@ static unsigned long ai_dword;
 static unsigned long ai_multi;
 static int ai_usermode;
 
+core_param(alignment, ai_usermode, int, 0600);
+
 #define UM_WARN                (1 << 0)
 #define UM_FIXUP       (1 << 1)
 #define UM_SIGNAL      (1 << 2)