arm64: signal: split frame link record from sigcontext structure
In order to be able to increase the amount of the data currently written to the __reserved[] array in the signal frame, it is necessary to overwrite the locations currently occupied by the {fp,lr} frame link record pushed at the top of the signal stack. In order for this to work, this patch detaches the frame link record from struct rt_sigframe and places it separately at the top of the signal stack. This will allow subsequent patches to insert data between it and __reserved[]. This change relies on the non-ABI status of the placement of the frame record with respect to struct sigframe: this status is undocumented, but the placement is not declared or described in the user headers, and known unwinder implementations (libgcc, libunwind, gdb) appear not to rely on it. Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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