This replaces a decent amount of incomprehensible and buggy code
with much more straightforward code. It also brings the 32-bit vdso
more in line with the 64-bit vdsos, so maybe someday they can share
even more code.
This wastes a small amount of kernel .data and .text space, but it
avoids a couple of allocations on startup, so it should be more or
less a wash memory-wise.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b8093933fad09ce181edb08a61dcd5d2592e9814.1395352498.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
This patch add the time support for 32 bit a VDSO to a 32 bit kernel.
For 32 bit programs running on a 32 bit kernel, the same mechanism is
used as for 64 bit programs running on a 64 bit kernel.
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395094933-14252-10-git-send-email-stefani@seibold.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
The compat vDSO is a complicated hack that's needed to maintain
compatibility with a small range of glibc versions.
This removes it and replaces it with a much simpler hack: a config
option to disable the 32-bit vDSO by default.
This also changes the default value of CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO to n --
users configuring kernels from scratch almost certainly want that
choice.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4bb4690899106eb11430b1186d5cc66ca9d1660c.1394751608.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
The address calculated by VDSO32_SYMBOL() is a pointer into
userland. Add the __user annotation to fix related sparse
warnings in its users.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@MIT.EDU>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1346621506-30857-3-git-send-email-minipli@googlemail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Variables that are shared between the vdso and the kernel are
currently a bit of a mess. They are each defined with their own
magic, they are accessed differently in the kernel, the vsyscall page,
and the vdso, and one of them (vsyscall_clock) doesn't even really
exist.
This changes them all to use a common mechanism. All of them are
delcared in vvar.h with a fixed address (validated by the linker
script). In the kernel (as before), they look like ordinary
read-write variables. In the vsyscall page and the vdso, they are
accessed through a new macro VVAR, which gives read-only access.
The vdso is now loaded verbatim into memory without any fixups. As a
side bonus, access from the vdso is faster because a level of
indirection is removed.
While we're at it, pack jiffies and vgetcpu_mode into the same
cacheline.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C7357882fbb51fa30491636a7b6528747301b7ee9.1306156808.git.luto%40mit.edu%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since:
a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless.
b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
