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Currently, vdso.so files are prepared and analyzed by a combination
of objcopy, nm, some linker script tricks, and some simple ELF
parsers in the kernel. Replace all of that with plain C code that
runs at build time.
All five vdso images now generate .c files that are compiled and
linked in to the kernel image.
This should cause only one userspace-visible change: the loaded vDSO
images are stripped more heavily than they used to be. Everything
outside the loadable segment is dropped. In particular, this causes
the section table and section name strings to be missing. This
should be fine: real dynamic loaders don't load or inspect these
tables anyway. The result is roughly equivalent to eu-strip's
--strip-sections option.
The purpose of this change is to enable the vvar and hpet mappings
to be moved to the page following the vDSO load segment. Currently,
it is possible for the section table to extend into the page after
the load segment, so, if we map it, it risks overlapping the vvar or
hpet page. This happens whenever the load segment is just under a
multiple of PAGE_SIZE.
The only real subtlety here is that the old code had a C file with
inline assembler that did 'call VDSO32_vsyscall' and a linker script
that defined 'VDSO32_vsyscall = __kernel_vsyscall'. This most
likely worked by accident: the linker script entry defines a symbol
associated with an address as opposed to an alias for the real
dynamic symbol __kernel_vsyscall. That caused ld to relocate the
reference at link time instead of leaving an interposable dynamic
relocation. Since the VDSO32_vsyscall hack is no longer needed, I
now use 'call __kernel_vsyscall', and I added -Bsymbolic to make it
work. vdso2c will generate an error and abort the build if the
resulting image contains any dynamic relocations, so we won't
silently generate bad vdso images.
(Dynamic relocations are a problem because nothing will even attempt
to relocate the vdso.)
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2c4fcf45524162a34d87fdda1eb046b2a5cecee7.1399317206.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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This fixes the Xen build and gets rid of a silly header file.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1df77311795aff75f5742c787d277518314a38d3.1395366931.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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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>
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None of these files are actually using any __init type directives
and hence don't need to include <linux/init.h>. Most are just a
left over from __devinit and __cpuinit removal, or simply due to
code getting copied from one driver to the next.
[ hpa: undid incorrect removal from arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S ]
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389054026-12947-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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This avoids an information leak to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a63380a3c58a0506a2f5a18ba1b12dbde1f25e58.1312378163.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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We can map the vDSO straight from kernel data, saving a few page
allocations. As an added bonus, the deleted code contained a memory
leak.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2c4ed5c2c2e93603790229e0c3403ae506ccc0cb.1311277573.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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The 64-bit vDSO image is in a special ".vdso" section for no reason
I can determine. Furthermore, the location of the vdso_end symbol
includes some wrongly-calculated padding space in the image, which
is then (correctly) rounded to page size, resulting in an extra page
of zeros in the image mapped in to user processes.
This changes it to put the vdso.so image into normal initdata as we
have always done for the 32-bit vDSO images. The extra padding is
gone, so the user VMA is one page instead of two. The image that
was already copied around at boot time is now in initdata, so we
recover that wasted space after boot.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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