Re: [PATCH v10 13/16] arm64: Advertise CPUs capable of running 32-bit applications in sysfs

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 06:38:45PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> Since 32-bit applications will be killed if they are caught trying to
> execute on a 64-bit-only CPU in a mismatched system, advertise the set
> of 32-bit capable CPUs to userspace in sysfs.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  .../ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu      |  9 +++++++++
>  arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c                | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
> index fe13baa53c59..899377b2715a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
> @@ -494,6 +494,15 @@ Description:	AArch64 CPU registers
>  		'identification' directory exposes the CPU ID registers for
>  		identifying model and revision of the CPU.
>  
> +What:		/sys/devices/system/cpu/aarch32_el0
> +Date:		May 2021
> +Contact:	Linux ARM Kernel Mailing list <linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> +Description:	Identifies the subset of CPUs in the system that can execute
> +		AArch32 (32-bit ARM) applications. If present, the same format as
> +		/sys/devices/system/cpu/{offline,online,possible,present} is used.
> +		If absent, then all or none of the CPUs can execute AArch32
> +		applications and execve() will behave accordingly.
> +
>  What:		/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/cpu_capacity
>  Date:		December 2016
>  Contact:	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> index 2f9fe57ead97..23eaa7f06f76 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
> @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
>  #include <linux/crash_dump.h>
>  #include <linux/sort.h>
>  #include <linux/stop_machine.h>
> +#include <linux/sysfs.h>
>  #include <linux/types.h>
>  #include <linux/minmax.h>
>  #include <linux/mm.h>
> @@ -1319,6 +1320,24 @@ const struct cpumask *system_32bit_el0_cpumask(void)
>  	return cpu_possible_mask;
>  }
>  
> +static ssize_t aarch32_el0_show(struct device *dev,
> +				struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> +{
> +	const struct cpumask *mask = system_32bit_el0_cpumask();
> +
> +	return sysfs_emit(buf, "%*pbl\n", cpumask_pr_args(mask));
> +}
> +static const DEVICE_ATTR_RO(aarch32_el0);

I just realized that we have a problem with this type of representation
overflowing PAGE_SIZE on larger systems.  There is ongoing work to fix
this up but that requires converting these to binary sysfs files, which
is a pain to preserve the original format here.

Yes, for now you will be fine on these arm32 systems, but in the future
this will have to be changed.  Because of that, should you just make
this an individual cpu attribute (one file per cpu) and not a single
file that lists all cpus?

what tool is going to read this and why can't they just pick it up from
the individual cpu files instead?

thanks,

greg k-h