linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h
Andy Lutomirski 8c49d9a74b x86-64: Clean up vdso/kernel shared variables
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>
2011-05-24 14:51:28 +02:00

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/*
* vvar.h: Shared vDSO/kernel variable declarations
* Copyright (c) 2011 Andy Lutomirski
* Subject to the GNU General Public License, version 2
*
* A handful of variables are accessible (read-only) from userspace
* code in the vsyscall page and the vdso. They are declared here.
* Some other file must define them with DEFINE_VVAR.
*
* In normal kernel code, they are used like any other variable.
* In user code, they are accessed through the VVAR macro.
*
* Each of these variables lives in the vsyscall page, and each
* one needs a unique offset within the little piece of the page
* reserved for vvars. Specify that offset in DECLARE_VVAR.
* (There are 896 bytes available. If you mess up, the linker will
* catch it.)
*/
/* Offset of vars within vsyscall page */
#define VSYSCALL_VARS_OFFSET (3072 + 128)
#if defined(__VVAR_KERNEL_LDS)
/* The kernel linker script defines its own magic to put vvars in the
* right place.
*/
#define DECLARE_VVAR(offset, type, name) \
EMIT_VVAR(name, VSYSCALL_VARS_OFFSET + offset)
#else
#define DECLARE_VVAR(offset, type, name) \
static type const * const vvaraddr_ ## name = \
(void *)(VSYSCALL_START + VSYSCALL_VARS_OFFSET + (offset));
#define DEFINE_VVAR(type, name) \
type __vvar_ ## name \
__attribute__((section(".vsyscall_var_" #name), aligned(16)))
#define VVAR(name) (*vvaraddr_ ## name)
#endif
/* DECLARE_VVAR(offset, type, name) */
DECLARE_VVAR(0, volatile unsigned long, jiffies)
DECLARE_VVAR(8, int, vgetcpu_mode)
DECLARE_VVAR(128, struct vsyscall_gtod_data, vsyscall_gtod_data)
#undef DECLARE_VVAR
#undef VSYSCALL_VARS_OFFSET