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* x86, vdso: Reimplement vdso.so preparation in build-time CAndy Lutomirski2014-05-051-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* x86, vdso: Move more vdso definitions into vdso.hAndy Lutomirski2014-03-201-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* x86: Load the 32-bit vdso in place, just like the 64-bit vdsosAndy Lutomirski2014-03-201-20/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* x86: Delete non-required instances of include <linux/init.h>Paul Gortmaker2014-01-061-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* x86-64: Pad vDSO to a page boundaryAndy Lutomirski2011-08-041-0/+1
| | | | | | | | 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>
* x86-64, vdso: Do not allocate memory for the vDSOAndy Lutomirski2011-07-211-2/+13
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* x86_64 vDSO: use initdataRoland McGrath2008-04-281-1/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* x86_64: move vdsoThomas Gleixner2007-10-111-0/+2
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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