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The Go runtime uses r30 for some special value called 'g'. It assumes
that value will remain unchanged even when calling VDSO functions.
Although r30 is non-volatile across function calls, the callee is free
to use it, as long as the callee saves the value and restores it before
returning.
It used to be true by accident that the VDSO didn't use r30, because the
VDSO was hand-written asm. When we switched to building the VDSO from C
the compiler started using r30, at least in some builds, leading to
crashes in Go. eg:
~/go/src$ ./all.bash
Building Go cmd/dist using /usr/lib/go-1.16. (go1.16.2 linux/ppc64le)
Building Go toolchain1 using /usr/lib/go-1.16.
go build os/exec: /usr/lib/go-1.16/pkg/tool/linux_ppc64le/compile: signal: segmentation fault
go build reflect: /usr/lib/go-1.16/pkg/tool/linux_ppc64le/compile: signal: segmentation fault
go tool dist: FAILED: /usr/lib/go-1.16/bin/go install -gcflags=-l -tags=math_big_pure_go compiler_bootstrap bootstrap/cmd/...: exit status 1
There are patches in flight to fix Go[1], but until they are released
and widely deployed we can workaround it in the VDSO by avoiding use of
r30.
Note this only works with GCC, clang does not support -ffixed-rN.
1: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/328110
Fixes: ab037dd87a2f ("powerpc/vdso: Switch VDSO to generic C implementation.")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.11+
Reported-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Tested-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210729131244.2595519-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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VDSO64 is only built for the 64-bit kernel, hence vgettimeofday.o is
built by the generic rule in scripts/Makefile.build.
This line does not provide anything useful.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201223171142.707053-2-masahiroy@kernel.org
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vgettimeofday.o is unnecessarily rebuilt. Adding it to 'targets' is not
enough to fix the issue. Kbuild is correctly rebuilding it because the
command line is changed.
PowerPC builds each vdso directory twice; first in vdso_prepare to
generate vdso{32,64}-offsets.h, second as part of the ordinary build
process to embed vdso{32,64}.so.dbg into the kernel.
The problem shows up when CONFIG_PPC_WERROR=y due to the following line
in arch/powerpc/Kbuild:
subdir-ccflags-$(CONFIG_PPC_WERROR) := -Werror
In the preparation stage, Kbuild directly visits the vdso directories,
hence it does not inherit subdir-ccflags-y. In the second descend,
Kbuild adds -Werror, which results in the command line flipping
with/without -Werror.
It implies a potential danger; if a more critical flag that would impact
the resulted vdso, the offsets recorded in the headers might be different
from real offsets in the embedded vdso images.
Removing the unneeded second descend solves the problem.
Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/87tuslxhry.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201223171142.707053-1-masahiroy@kernel.org
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Add R_PPC_REL24 relocations to the list of relocations we do NOT
support in the VDSO.
These are generated in some cases and we do not support relocating
them at runtime, so if they appear then the VDSO will not work at
runtime, therefore it's preferable to break the build if we see them.
Fixes: ab037dd87a2f ("powerpc/vdso: Switch VDSO to generic C implementation.")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201218111619.1206391-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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This is copied from arm64.
Instead of using runtime generated signal trampoline offsets,
get offsets at buildtime.
If the said trampoline doesn't exist, build will fail. So no
need to check whether the trampoline exists or not in the VDSO.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f8bfd6812c3e3678b1cdb4d55a52f9eb022b40d3.1601197618.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
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Since commit 24b659a13866 ("powerpc: Use unstripped VDSO image for
more accurate profiling data"), only the unstripped VDSO image
has been used.
Partially revert commit 8150caad0226 ("[POWERPC] powerpc vDSO: install
unstripped copies on disk") to avoid building the stripped version.
And the unstripped version in $(MODLIB)/vdso/ is not required
anymore as it is the one embedded in the kernel image.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5986ca25be44fe6e9790486304507f240077d8c4.1601197618.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
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With the C VDSO, the performance is slightly lower, but it is worth
it as it will ease maintenance and evolution, and also brings clocks
that are not supported with the ASM VDSO.
On an 8xx at 132 MHz, vdsotest with the ASM VDSO:
gettimeofday: vdso: 828 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime-coarse: vdso: 391 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime-coarse: vdso: 614 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime: vdso: 460 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime: vdso: 876 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 399 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 691 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic: vdso: 460 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic: vdso: 1026 nsec/call
On an 8xx at 132 MHz, vdsotest with the C VDSO:
gettimeofday: vdso: 955 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime-coarse: vdso: 545 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime-coarse: vdso: 592 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime: vdso: 545 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime: vdso: 941 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 545 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 591 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic: vdso: 545 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic: vdso: 940 nsec/call
It is even better for gettime with monotonic clocks.
Unsupported clocks with ASM VDSO:
clock-gettime-boottime: vdso: 3851 nsec/call
clock-gettime-tai: vdso: 3852 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-raw: vdso: 3396 nsec/call
Same clocks with C VDSO:
clock-gettime-tai: vdso: 941 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-raw: vdso: 1001 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 591 nsec/call
On an 8321E at 333 MHz, vdsotest with the ASM VDSO:
gettimeofday: vdso: 220 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime-coarse: vdso: 102 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime-coarse: vdso: 178 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime: vdso: 129 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime: vdso: 235 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 105 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 208 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic: vdso: 129 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic: vdso: 274 nsec/call
On an 8321E at 333 MHz, vdsotest with the C VDSO:
gettimeofday: vdso: 272 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime-coarse: vdso: 160 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime-coarse: vdso: 184 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime: vdso: 166 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime: vdso: 281 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 160 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 184 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic: vdso: 169 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic: vdso: 275 nsec/call
On a Power9 Nimbus DD2.2 at 3.8GHz, with the ASM VDSO:
clock-gettime-monotonic: vdso: 35 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic: vdso: 16 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 18 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 522 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-raw: vdso: 598 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic-raw: vdso: 520 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime: vdso: 34 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime: vdso: 16 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime-coarse: vdso: 18 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime-coarse: vdso: 517 nsec/call
getcpu: vdso: 8 nsec/call
gettimeofday: vdso: 25 nsec/call
And with the C VDSO:
clock-gettime-monotonic: vdso: 37 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic: vdso: 20 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 21 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 19 nsec/call
clock-gettime-monotonic-raw: vdso: 38 nsec/call
clock-getres-monotonic-raw: vdso: 20 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime: vdso: 37 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime: vdso: 20 nsec/call
clock-gettime-realtime-coarse: vdso: 20 nsec/call
clock-getres-realtime-coarse: vdso: 19 nsec/call
getcpu: vdso: 8 nsec/call
gettimeofday: vdso: 28 nsec/call
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201126131006.2431205-8-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- Support 'make compile_commands.json' to generate the compilation
database more easily, avoiding stale entries
- Support 'make clang-analyzer' and 'make clang-tidy' for static checks
using clang-tidy
- Preprocess scripts/modules.lds.S to allow CONFIG options in the
module linker script
- Drop cc-option tests from compiler flags supported by our minimal
GCC/Clang versions
- Use always 12-digits commit hash for CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y
- Use sha1 build id for both BFD linker and LLD
- Improve deb-pkg for reproducible builds and rootless builds
- Remove stale, useless scripts/namespace.pl
- Turn -Wreturn-type warning into error
- Fix build error of deb-pkg when CONFIG_MODULES=n
- Replace 'hostname' command with more portable 'uname -n'
- Various Makefile cleanups
* tag 'kbuild-v5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (34 commits)
kbuild: Use uname for LINUX_COMPILE_HOST detection
kbuild: Only add -fno-var-tracking-assignments for old GCC versions
kbuild: remove leftover comment for filechk utility
treewide: remove DISABLE_LTO
kbuild: deb-pkg: clean up package name variables
kbuild: deb-pkg: do not build linux-headers package if CONFIG_MODULES=n
kbuild: enforce -Werror=return-type
scripts: remove namespace.pl
builddeb: Add support for all required debian/rules targets
builddeb: Enable rootless builds
builddeb: Pass -n to gzip for reproducible packages
kbuild: split the build log of kallsyms
kbuild: explicitly specify the build id style
scripts/setlocalversion: make git describe output more reliable
kbuild: remove cc-option test of -Werror=date-time
kbuild: remove cc-option test of -fno-stack-check
kbuild: remove cc-option test of -fno-strict-overflow
kbuild: move CFLAGS_{KASAN,UBSAN,KCSAN} exports to relevant Makefiles
kbuild: remove redundant CONFIG_KASAN check from scripts/Makefile.kasan
kbuild: do not create built-in objects for external module builds
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The vdso linker script is preprocessed on demand.
Adding it to 'targets' is enough to include the .cmd file.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com>
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This reverts commit f2af201002a8bc22500c04cc474ea480bf361351.
It added a usage of cc-ldoption, but cc-ldoption was removed in commit
055efab3120b ("kbuild: drop support for cc-ldoption").
Reported-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200303012748.4190929-1-npiggin@gmail.com
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Towards the goal of removing cc-ldoption, it seems that --hash-style=
was added to binutils 2.17.50.0.2 in 2006. The minimal required
version of binutils for the kernel according to
Documentation/process/changes.rst is 2.20.
Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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kcov provides kernel coverage data that's useful for fuzzing tools like
syzkaller.
Wire up kcov support on powerpc. Disable kcov instrumentation on the same
files where we currently disable gcov and UBSan instrumentation, plus some
additional exclusions which appear necessary to boot on book3e machines.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net> # e6500
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.
By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.
Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.
This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.
How this work was done:
Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,
Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.
The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.
The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).
All documentation files were explicitly excluded.
The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.
- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.
For non */uapi/* files that summary was:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139
and resulted in the first patch in this series.
If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930
and resulted in the second patch in this series.
- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1
and that resulted in the third patch in this series.
- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).
- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.
- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).
- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.
In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.
Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.
In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.
Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct
This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.
These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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We can just use the standard .S -> .o rule, cmd_as_o_S.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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When using if_changed, we need to add FORCE as a dependency (see
Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt) otherwise we don't get command line
change checking amongst other things. This has resulted in vdsos not
being rebuilt when switching between big and little endian.
The vdso64/32ld commands have to be changed around to avoid pulling
FORCE into the linker command line (code copied from x86).
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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This hooks up UBSAN support for PowerPC.
So far it's found some interesting cases where we don't properly sanitise
input to shifts, including one in our futex handling. Nothing critical,
but interesting and worth fixing.
[valentinrothberg@gmail.com: arch/powerpc/Kconfig: fix typo in select statement]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Tested-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andy Lutomirski says:
Some dynamic loaders may be slightly faster if a GNU hash is
available.
This is unlikely to have any measurable effect on the time it takes
to resolve vdso symbols (since there are so few of them). In some
contexts, it can be a win for a different reason: if every DSO has a
GNU hash section, then libc can avoid calculating SysV hashes at
all. Both musl and glibc appear to have this optimization.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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We have a request for a fast method of getting CPU and NUMA node IDs
from userspace. This patch implements a getcpu VDSO function,
similar to x86.
Ben suggested we use SPRG3 which is userspace readable. SPRG3 can be
modified by a KVM guest, so we save the SPRG3 value in the paca and
restore it when transitioning from the guest to the host.
I have a glibc patch that implements sched_getcpu on top of this.
Testing on a POWER7:
baseline: 538 cycles
vdso: 30 cycles
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Replace EXTRA_CFLAGS with ccflags-y and EXTRA_AFLAGS with asflags-y.
Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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ld-option is misnamed as it test options to gcc, not to ld.
Renamed it to reflect this.
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Make it possible to enable GCOV code coverage measurement on powerpc.
Lightly tested on 64-bit, seems to work as expected.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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This keeps an unstripped copy of the vDSO images built before they are
stripped and embedded in the kernel. The unstripped copies get installed in
$(MODLIB)/vdso/ by "make install". These files can be useful when they
contain source-level debugging information.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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The latest toolchains can produce a new ELF section in DSOs and
dynamically-linked executables. The new section ".gnu.hash" replaces
".hash", and allows for more efficient runtime symbol lookups by the
dynamic linker. The new ld option --hash-style={sysv|gnu|both} controls
whether to produce the old ".hash", the new ".gnu.hash", or both. In some
new systems such as Fedora Core 6, gcc by default passes --hash-style=gnu
to the linker, so that a standard invocation of "gcc -shared" results in
producing a DSO with only ".gnu.hash". The new ".gnu.hash" sections need
to be dealt with the same way as ".hash" sections in all respects; only the
dynamic linker cares about their contents. To work with older dynamic
linkers (i.e. preexisting releases of glibc), a binary must have the old
".hash" section. The --hash-style=both option produces binaries that a new
dynamic linker can use more efficiently, but an old dynamic linker can
still handle.
The new section runs afoul of the custom linker scripts used to build vDSO
images for the kernel. On ia64, the failure mode for this is a boot-time
panic because the vDSO's PT_IA_64_UNWIND segment winds up ill-formed.
This patch addresses the problem in two ways.
First, it mentions ".gnu.hash" in all the linker scripts alongside ".hash".
This produces correct vDSO images with --hash-style=sysv (or old tools),
with --hash-style=gnu, or with --hash-style=both.
Second, it passes the --hash-style=sysv option when building the vDSO
images, so that ".gnu.hash" is not actually produced. This is the most
conservative choice for compatibility with any old userland. There is some
concern that some ancient glibc builds (though not any known old production
system) might choke on --hash-style=both binaries. The optimizations
provided by the new style of hash section do not really matter for a DSO
with a tiny number of symbols, as the vDSO has. If someone wants to use
=gnu or =both for their vDSO builds and worry less about that
compatibility, just change the option and the linker script changes will
make any choice work fine.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch moves the vdso's to arch/powerpc, adds support for the 32
bits vdso to the 32 bits kernel, rename systemcfg (finally !), and adds
some new (still untested) routines to both vdso's: clock_gettime() with
support for CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC, clock_getres() (same
clocks) and get_tbfreq() for glibc to retreive the timebase frequency.
Tom,Steve: The implementation of get_tbfreq() I've done for 32 bits
returns a long long (r3, r4) not a long. This is such that if we ever
add support for >4Ghz timebases on ppc32, the userland interface won't
have to change.
I have tested gettimeofday() using some glibc patches in both ppc32 and
ppc64 kernels using 32 bits userland (I haven't had a chance to test a
64 bits userland yet, but the implementation didn't change and was
tested earlier). I haven't tested yet the new functions.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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