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For some reason old binutils genertate larger headers so increase the text
offset of the vdso to avoid linker errors.
Roland McGrath explains:
"There are extra symbols in the '.dynsym' section that are responsible
for the size difference (They also cause corresponding inflation in
'.gnu.version')
Older ld's wrongly generated these unneeded symbols in .dynsym. This
was fixed not all that long ago (2006); binutils-2.17.50.0.6 might be
the first fixed version, but I have not verified for sure where the
cutoff was.
The unneeded symbols et al from old ld add almost 700 bytes excess.
This limits fairly tightly the amount by which the actual text and
data in the vDSO can grow in the future without pushing the whole
file over 4kb. If it does grow later on, we should consider changing
the layout with a config option or something to pack it better
without that padding, when building the kernel with newer binutils."
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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vdso vgetns() didn't mask the time source offset calculation, which
could lead to time problems with 32bit HPET. Add the masking.
Thanks to Chuck Ebbert for tracking this down.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Create arch/x86_64/vdso/.gitignore and put vdso.lds into it.
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Remove fs.h from mm.h. For this,
1) Uninline vma_wants_writenotify(). It's pretty huge anyway.
2) Add back fs.h or less bloated headers (err.h) to files that need it.
As result, on x86_64 allyesconfig, fs.h dependencies cut down from 3929 files
rebuilt down to 3444 (-12.3%).
Cross-compile tested without regressions on my two usual configs and (sigh):
alpha arm-mx1ads mips-bigsur powerpc-ebony
alpha-allnoconfig arm-neponset mips-capcella powerpc-g5
alpha-defconfig arm-netwinder mips-cobalt powerpc-holly
alpha-up arm-netx mips-db1000 powerpc-iseries
arm arm-ns9xxx mips-db1100 powerpc-linkstation
arm-assabet arm-omap_h2_1610 mips-db1200 powerpc-lite5200
arm-at91rm9200dk arm-onearm mips-db1500 powerpc-maple
arm-at91rm9200ek arm-picotux200 mips-db1550 powerpc-mpc7448_hpc2
arm-at91sam9260ek arm-pleb mips-ddb5477 powerpc-mpc8272_ads
arm-at91sam9261ek arm-pnx4008 mips-decstation powerpc-mpc8313_rdb
arm-at91sam9263ek arm-pxa255-idp mips-e55 powerpc-mpc832x_mds
arm-at91sam9rlek arm-realview mips-emma2rh powerpc-mpc832x_rdb
arm-ateb9200 arm-realview-smp mips-excite powerpc-mpc834x_itx
arm-badge4 arm-rpc mips-fulong powerpc-mpc834x_itxgp
arm-carmeva arm-s3c2410 mips-ip22 powerpc-mpc834x_mds
arm-cerfcube arm-shannon mips-ip27 powerpc-mpc836x_mds
arm-clps7500 arm-shark mips-ip32 powerpc-mpc8540_ads
arm-collie arm-simpad mips-jazz powerpc-mpc8544_ds
arm-corgi arm-spitz mips-jmr3927 powerpc-mpc8560_ads
arm-csb337 arm-trizeps4 mips-malta powerpc-mpc8568mds
arm-csb637 arm-versatile mips-mipssim powerpc-mpc85xx_cds
arm-ebsa110 i386 mips-mpc30x powerpc-mpc8641_hpcn
arm-edb7211 i386-allnoconfig mips-msp71xx powerpc-mpc866_ads
arm-em_x270 i386-defconfig mips-ocelot powerpc-mpc885_ads
arm-ep93xx i386-up mips-pb1100 powerpc-pasemi
arm-footbridge ia64 mips-pb1500 powerpc-pmac32
arm-fortunet ia64-allnoconfig mips-pb1550 powerpc-ppc64
arm-h3600 ia64-bigsur mips-pnx8550-jbs powerpc-prpmc2800
arm-h7201 ia64-defconfig mips-pnx8550-stb810 powerpc-ps3
arm-h7202 ia64-gensparse mips-qemu powerpc-pseries
arm-hackkit ia64-sim mips-rbhma4200 powerpc-up
arm-integrator ia64-sn2 mips-rbhma4500 s390
arm-iop13xx ia64-tiger mips-rm200 s390-allnoconfig
arm-iop32x ia64-up mips-sb1250-swarm s390-defconfig
arm-iop33x ia64-zx1 mips-sead s390-up
arm-ixp2000 m68k mips-tb0219 sparc
arm-ixp23xx m68k-amiga mips-tb0226 sparc-allnoconfig
arm-ixp4xx m68k-apollo mips-tb0287 sparc-defconfig
arm-jornada720 m68k-atari mips-workpad sparc-up
arm-kafa m68k-bvme6000 mips-wrppmc sparc64
arm-kb9202 m68k-hp300 mips-yosemite sparc64-allnoconfig
arm-ks8695 m68k-mac parisc sparc64-defconfig
arm-lart m68k-mvme147 parisc-allnoconfig sparc64-up
arm-lpd270 m68k-mvme16x parisc-defconfig um-x86_64
arm-lpd7a400 m68k-q40 parisc-up x86_64
arm-lpd7a404 m68k-sun3 powerpc x86_64-allnoconfig
arm-lubbock m68k-sun3x powerpc-cell x86_64-defconfig
arm-lusl7200 mips powerpc-celleb x86_64-up
arm-mainstone mips-atlas powerpc-chrp32
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This avoids a conflict with sparse builds.
Reported by Alexey Dobriyan, fix suggested by Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This implements new vDSO for x86-64. The concept is similar
to the existing vDSOs on i386 and PPC. x86-64 has had static
vsyscalls before, but these are not flexible enough anymore.
A vDSO is a ELF shared library supplied by the kernel that is mapped into
user address space. The vDSO mapping is randomized for each process
for security reasons.
Doing this was needed for clock_gettime, because clock_gettime
always needs a syscall fallback and having one at a fixed
address would have made buffer overflow exploits too easy to write.
The vdso can be disabled with vdso=0
It currently includes a new gettimeofday implemention and optimized
clock_gettime(). The gettimeofday implementation is slightly faster
than the one in the old vsyscall. clock_gettime is significantly faster
than the syscall for CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME.
The new calls are generally faster than the old vsyscall.
Advantages over the old x86-64 vsyscalls:
- Extensible
- Randomized
- Cleaner
- Easier to virtualize (the old static address range previously causes
overhead e.g. for Xen because it has to create special page tables for it)
Weak points:
- glibc support still to be written
The VM interface is partly based on Ingo Molnar's i386 version.
Includes compile fix from Joachim Deguara
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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