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The current VDSO patch mechanism has several problems: 1) It assumes how gcc will emit a function, with a register window, an initial save instruction and then immediately the %tick read when compiling vread_tick(). There is no such guarantees, code generation could change at any time, gcc could put a nop between the save and the %tick read, etc. So this is extremely fragile and would fail some day. 2) It disallows us to properly inline vread_tick() into the callers and thus get the best possible code sequences. So fix this to patch properly, with location based annotations. We have to be careful because we cannot do it the way we do patches elsewhere in the kernel. Those use a sequence like: 1: insn .section .whatever_patch, "ax" .word 1b replacement_insn .previous This is a dynamic shared object, so that .word cannot be resolved at build time, and thus cannot be used to execute the patches when the kernel initializes the images. Even trying to use label difference equations doesn't work in the above kind of scheme: 1: insn .section .whatever_patch, "ax" .word . - 1b replacement_insn .previous The assembler complains that it cannot resolve that computation. The issue is that this is contained in an executable section. Borrow the sequence used by x86 alternatives, which is: 1: insn .pushsection .whatever_patch, "a" .word . - 1b, . - 1f .popsection .pushsection .whatever_patch_replacements, "ax" 1: replacement_insn .previous This works, allows us to inline vread_tick() as much as we like, and can be used for arbitrary kinds of VDSO patching in the future. Also, reverse the condition for patching. Most systems are %stick based, so if we only patch on %tick systems the patching code will get little or no testing. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.