New devices launching with Android P need to use the 64-bit
binder interface, even on 32-bit SoCs [0].
This change removes the Kconfig option to select the 32-bit
binder interface. We don't think this will affect existing
userspace for the following reasons:
1) The latest Android common tree is 4.14, so we don't
believe any Android devices are on kernels >4.14.
2) Android devices launch on an LTS release and stick with
it, so we wouldn't expect devices running on <= 4.14 now
to upgrade to 4.17 or later. But even if they did, they'd
rebuild the world (kernel + userspace) anyway.
3) Other userspaces like 'anbox' are already using the
64-bit interface.
Note that this change doesn't remove the 32-bit UAPI
itself; the reason for that is that Android userspace
always uses the latest UAPI headers from upstream, and
userspace retains 32-bit support for devices that are
upgrading. This will be removed as well in 2-3 years,
at which point we can remove the code from the UAPI
as well.
Finally, this change introduces build errors on archs where
64-bit get_user/put_user is not supported, so make binder
unavailable on m68k (which wouldn't want it anyway).
[0]: https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/build/+/595193
Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 1190b4e38f)
Change-Id: I73dadf1d7b45a42bb18be5d5d3f5c090e61866de
(from https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9928609/)
binder_alloc_selftest tests that alloc_new_buf handles page allocation and
deallocation properly when allocate and free buffers. The test allocates 5
buffers of various sizes to cover all possible page alignment cases, and
frees the buffers using a list of exhaustive freeing order.
Test: boot the device with ANDROID_BINDER_IPC_SELFTEST config option
enabled. Allocator selftest passes.
Bug: 36007193
Change-Id: I2fe396232b7dfe4bbc50bdba99ca0de9be63cc37
Signed-off-by: Sherry Yang <sherryy@android.com>
Add a new module parameter 'devices', that can be
used to specify the names of the binder device
nodes we want to populate in /dev.
Each device node has its own context manager, and
is therefore logically separated from all the other
device nodes.
The config option CONFIG_ANDROID_BINDER_DEVICES can
be used to set the default value of the parameter.
This approach was favored over using IPC namespaces,
mostly because we require a single process to be a
part of multiple binder contexts, which seemed harder
to achieve with namespaces.
Change-Id: I3df72b2a19b5ad5a0360e6322482db7b00a12b24
Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@google.com>
The Android binder code has been "stable" for many years now. No matter
what comes in the future, we are going to have to support this API, so
might as well move it to the "real" part of the kernel as there's no
real work that needs to be done to the existing code.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
