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| author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@MIT.EDU> | 2011-05-23 09:31:24 -0400 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2011-05-24 14:51:28 +0200 |
| commit | 8c49d9a74bac5ea3f18480307057241b808fcc0c (patch) | |
| tree | a9d2d8160ca37e9292e605cf3cdd85b29646c4b7 /arch/x86/vdso/vma.c | |
| parent | d762f4383100c2a87b1a3f2d678cd3b5425655b4 (diff) | |
| download | linux-8c49d9a74bac5ea3f18480307057241b808fcc0c.tar.bz2 | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/vdso/vma.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/vdso/vma.c | 27 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vma.c b/arch/x86/vdso/vma.c index 4b5d26f108bb..7abd2be0f9b9 100644 --- a/arch/x86/vdso/vma.c +++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vma.c @@ -15,9 +15,6 @@ #include <asm/proto.h> #include <asm/vdso.h> -#include "vextern.h" /* Just for VMAGIC. */ -#undef VEXTERN - unsigned int __read_mostly vdso_enabled = 1; extern char vdso_start[], vdso_end[]; @@ -26,20 +23,10 @@ extern unsigned short vdso_sync_cpuid; static struct page **vdso_pages; static unsigned vdso_size; -static inline void *var_ref(void *p, char *name) -{ - if (*(void **)p != (void *)VMAGIC) { - printk("VDSO: variable %s broken\n", name); - vdso_enabled = 0; - } - return p; -} - static int __init init_vdso_vars(void) { int npages = (vdso_end - vdso_start + PAGE_SIZE - 1) / PAGE_SIZE; int i; - char *vbase; vdso_size = npages << PAGE_SHIFT; vdso_pages = kmalloc(sizeof(struct page *) * npages, GFP_KERNEL); @@ -54,20 +41,6 @@ static int __init init_vdso_vars(void) copy_page(page_address(p), vdso_start + i*PAGE_SIZE); } - vbase = vmap(vdso_pages, npages, 0, PAGE_KERNEL); - if (!vbase) - goto oom; - - if (memcmp(vbase, "\177ELF", 4)) { - printk("VDSO: I'm broken; not ELF\n"); - vdso_enabled = 0; - } - -#define VEXTERN(x) \ - *(typeof(__ ## x) **) var_ref(VDSO64_SYMBOL(vbase, x), #x) = &__ ## x; -#include "vextern.h" -#undef VEXTERN - vunmap(vbase); return 0; oom: |