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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@MIT.EDU>2011-05-23 09:31:24 -0400
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2011-05-24 14:51:28 +0200
commit8c49d9a74bac5ea3f18480307057241b808fcc0c (patch)
treea9d2d8160ca37e9292e605cf3cdd85b29646c4b7 /arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
parentd762f4383100c2a87b1a3f2d678cd3b5425655b4 (diff)
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/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S34
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 49927a863cc..74b5ad450c7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -161,6 +161,12 @@ SECTIONS
#define VVIRT_OFFSET (VSYSCALL_ADDR - __vsyscall_0)
#define VVIRT(x) (ADDR(x) - VVIRT_OFFSET)
+#define EMIT_VVAR(x, offset) .vsyscall_var_ ## x \
+ ADDR(.vsyscall_0) + offset \
+ : AT(VLOAD(.vsyscall_var_ ## x)) { \
+ *(.vsyscall_var_ ## x) \
+ } \
+ x = VVIRT(.vsyscall_var_ ## x);
. = ALIGN(4096);
__vsyscall_0 = .;
@@ -175,18 +181,6 @@ SECTIONS
*(.vsyscall_fn)
}
- . = ALIGN(L1_CACHE_BYTES);
- .vsyscall_gtod_data : AT(VLOAD(.vsyscall_gtod_data)) {
- *(.vsyscall_gtod_data)
- }
-
- vsyscall_gtod_data = VVIRT(.vsyscall_gtod_data);
- .vsyscall_clock : AT(VLOAD(.vsyscall_clock)) {
- *(.vsyscall_clock)
- }
- vsyscall_clock = VVIRT(.vsyscall_clock);
-
-
.vsyscall_1 ADDR(.vsyscall_0) + 1024: AT(VLOAD(.vsyscall_1)) {
*(.vsyscall_1)
}
@@ -194,21 +188,14 @@ SECTIONS
*(.vsyscall_2)
}
- .vgetcpu_mode : AT(VLOAD(.vgetcpu_mode)) {
- *(.vgetcpu_mode)
- }
- vgetcpu_mode = VVIRT(.vgetcpu_mode);
-
- . = ALIGN(L1_CACHE_BYTES);
- .jiffies : AT(VLOAD(.jiffies)) {
- *(.jiffies)
- }
- jiffies = VVIRT(.jiffies);
-
.vsyscall_3 ADDR(.vsyscall_0) + 3072: AT(VLOAD(.vsyscall_3)) {
*(.vsyscall_3)
}
+#define __VVAR_KERNEL_LDS
+#include <asm/vvar.h>
+#undef __VVAR_KERNEL_LDS
+
. = __vsyscall_0 + PAGE_SIZE;
#undef VSYSCALL_ADDR
@@ -216,6 +203,7 @@ SECTIONS
#undef VLOAD
#undef VVIRT_OFFSET
#undef VVIRT
+#undef EMIT_VVAR
#endif /* CONFIG_X86_64 */