linux/arch/x86/xen
Andy Lutomirski 6f121e548f 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>
2014-05-05 13:18:51 -07:00
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apic.c xen/apic/xenbus/swiotlb/pcifront/grant/tmem: Make functions or variables static. 2012-08-21 14:50:03 -04:00
debugfs.c debugfs: Add support to print u32 array in debugfs 2012-04-17 00:18:36 -04:00
debugfs.h debugfs: Add support to print u32 array in debugfs 2012-04-17 00:18:36 -04:00
enlighten.c xen/pvh: set CR4 flags for APs 2014-02-03 15:44:18 -05:00
grant-table.c xen/pvh: Fix misplaced kfree from xlated_setup_gnttab_pages 2014-01-31 09:48:58 -05:00
irq.c Merge branch 'x86-asmlinkage-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-01-30 18:15:32 -08:00
Kconfig Support PCI devices with multiple MSIs, performance improvement for 2014-04-03 14:01:37 -07:00
Makefile xen/x86: Implement x86_apic_ops 2012-05-01 14:50:33 -04:00
mmu.c Merge branch 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-04-02 12:26:43 -07:00
mmu.h xen: make a pile of mmu pvop functions static 2011-05-20 14:25:24 -07:00
multicalls.c xen/multicall: move *idx fields to start of mc_buffer 2011-07-18 15:43:46 -07:00
multicalls.h xen: use this_cpu_xxx replace percpu_xxx funcs 2012-01-24 12:20:24 -05:00
p2m.c xen/grant-table: Refactor gnttab_[un]map_refs to avoid m2p_override 2014-03-18 14:40:19 +00:00
pci-swiotlb-xen.c pci-swiotlb-xen: call pci_request_acs only ifdef CONFIG_PCI 2013-11-08 15:21:44 -05:00
platform-pci-unplug.c xen/pvhvm: Remove the xen_platform_pci int. 2014-01-03 14:54:53 -05:00
setup.c x86, vdso: Reimplement vdso.so preparation in build-time C 2014-05-05 13:18:51 -07:00
smp.c x86/xen: Fix 32-bit PV guests's usage of kernel_stack 2014-04-15 15:00:14 +01:00
smp.h xen: Clean up apic ipi interface 2013-05-29 09:04:21 -04:00
spinlock.c xen/spinlock: Don't enable them unconditionally. 2014-04-15 17:41:28 +01:00
suspend.c Revert "xen PVonHVM: use E820_Reserved area for shared_info" 2013-02-14 21:29:31 -05:00
time.c xen/x86: set VIRQ_TIMER priority to maximum 2014-01-06 10:07:55 -05:00
trace.c xen/trace: Fix compile error when CONFIG_XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST is not set 2011-08-05 09:43:02 -04:00
vdso.h
vga.c xen/vga: add the xen EFI video mode support 2012-09-24 09:28:57 -04:00
xen-asm_32.S x86/xen: Fix 32-bit PV guests's usage of kernel_stack 2014-04-15 15:00:14 +01:00
xen-asm_64.S xen: use iret for return from 64b kernel to 32b usermode 2009-12-03 11:14:54 -08:00
xen-asm.h
xen-asm.S xen: correctly check for pending events when restoring irq flags 2012-04-27 16:04:21 -04:00
xen-head.S xen/pvh: Support ParaVirtualized Hardware extensions (v3). 2014-01-06 10:44:24 -05:00
xen-ops.h xen/pvh: Set X86_CR0_WP and others in CR0 (v2) 2014-01-21 13:26:05 -05:00