From 8c49d9a74bac5ea3f18480307057241b808fcc0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 09:31:24 -0400 Subject: 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 Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Borislav Petkov Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C7357882fbb51fa30491636a7b6528747301b7ee9.1306156808.git.luto%40mit.edu%3E Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h | 12 ++---------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h') diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h index d0983d255fbd..d55597351f6a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h @@ -16,27 +16,19 @@ enum vsyscall_num { #ifdef __KERNEL__ #include -#define __section_vgetcpu_mode __attribute__ ((unused, __section__ (".vgetcpu_mode"), aligned(16))) -#define __section_jiffies __attribute__ ((unused, __section__ (".jiffies"), aligned(16))) - /* Definitions for CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME definitions */ -#define __section_vsyscall_gtod_data __attribute__ \ - ((unused, __section__ (".vsyscall_gtod_data"),aligned(16))) -#define __section_vsyscall_clock __attribute__ \ - ((unused, __section__ (".vsyscall_clock"),aligned(16))) #define __vsyscall_fn \ __attribute__ ((unused, __section__(".vsyscall_fn"))) notrace #define VGETCPU_RDTSCP 1 #define VGETCPU_LSL 2 -extern int __vgetcpu_mode; -extern volatile unsigned long __jiffies; - /* kernel space (writeable) */ extern int vgetcpu_mode; extern struct timezone sys_tz; +#include + extern void map_vsyscall(void); #endif /* __KERNEL__ */ -- cgit v1.2.3