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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>2014-05-05 12:19:34 -0700
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2014-05-05 13:18:51 -0700
commit6f121e548f83674ab4920a4e60afb58d4f61b829 (patch)
tree699aa67f4e5242d1e3cd46513faf27493debc680 /arch/x86/xen
parentcfda7bb9ecbf9d96264bb5bade33a842966d1062 (diff)
x86, vdso: Reimplement vdso.so preparation in build-time C
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/xen')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/xen/setup.c11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
index 0982233b9b84..7225a9557ee2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c
@@ -516,10 +516,17 @@ char * __init xen_memory_setup(void)
static void __init fiddle_vdso(void)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
+ /*
+ * This could be called before selected_vdso32 is initialized, so
+ * just fiddle with both possible images. vdso_image_32_syscall
+ * can't be selected, since it only exists on 64-bit systems.
+ */
u32 *mask;
- mask = VDSO32_SYMBOL(&vdso32_int80_start, NOTE_MASK);
+ mask = vdso_image_32_int80.data +
+ vdso_image_32_int80.sym_VDSO32_NOTE_MASK;
*mask |= 1 << VDSO_NOTE_NONEGSEG_BIT;
- mask = VDSO32_SYMBOL(&vdso32_sysenter_start, NOTE_MASK);
+ mask = vdso_image_32_sysenter.data +
+ vdso_image_32_sysenter.sym_VDSO32_NOTE_MASK;
*mask |= 1 << VDSO_NOTE_NONEGSEG_BIT;
#endif
}