linux/arch/x86/mm
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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kmemcheck arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/kmemcheck.c: use kstrtoint() instead of sscanf() 2014-04-08 16:48:52 -07:00
amdtopology.c x86/mm/numa: Simplify some bit mangling 2013-04-10 19:06:26 +02:00
dump_pagetables.c x86, ptdump: Add the functionality to dump an arbitrary pagetable 2014-03-04 16:16:17 +00:00
extable.c x86, extable: Switch to relative exception table entries 2012-04-20 17:22:34 -07:00
fault.c Merge branch 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-03-31 12:26:05 -07:00
gup.c mm: dump page when hitting a VM_BUG_ON using VM_BUG_ON_PAGE 2014-01-23 16:36:50 -08:00
highmem_32.c mm: accurately calculate zone->managed_pages for highmem zones 2013-07-03 16:07:33 -07:00
hugetlbpage.c x86/mm: Implement ASLR for hugetlb mappings 2013-11-19 14:24:50 +01:00
init_32.c memblock: make memblock_set_node() support different memblock_type 2014-01-21 16:19:44 -08:00
init_64.c x86, vdso: Reimplement vdso.so preparation in build-time C 2014-05-05 13:18:51 -07:00
init.c arch/x86/mm/init.c: fix incorrect function name in alloc_low_pages() 2013-11-13 12:09:11 +09:00
iomap_32.c mm: fix race in kunmap_atomic() 2010-10-27 18:03:05 -07:00
ioremap.c x86, mm: Ensure correct alignment of the fixmap 2014-05-05 13:18:25 -07:00
kmmio.c x86: Delete non-required instances of include <linux/init.h> 2014-01-06 21:25:18 -08:00
Makefile x86, trace: Add page fault tracepoints 2013-11-08 14:15:49 -08:00
memtest.c x86/mm: memblock: switch to use NUMA_NO_NODE 2014-01-21 16:19:47 -08:00
mm_internal.h x86, mm: Move after_bootmem to mm_internel.h 2012-11-17 11:59:45 -08:00
mmap.c x86 get_unmapped_area: Access mmap_legacy_base through mm_struct member 2013-08-22 10:19:35 -07:00
mmio-mod.c x86: delete __cpuinit usage from all x86 files 2013-07-14 19:36:56 -04:00
numa_32.c x86: Fix the initialization of physnode_map 2014-02-01 22:15:51 -08:00
numa_64.c x86, mm: kill numa_free_all_bootmem() 2012-11-17 11:59:47 -08:00
numa_emulation.c x86: delete __cpuinit usage from all x86 files 2013-07-14 19:36:56 -04:00
numa_internal.h x86-32, mm: Rip out x86_32 NUMA remapping code 2013-01-31 14:12:30 -08:00
numa.c x86, platforms: Remove NUMAQ 2014-02-27 08:07:39 -08:00
pageattr-test.c x86: Delete non-required instances of include <linux/init.h> 2014-01-06 21:25:18 -08:00
pageattr.c Merge branch 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-03-31 12:26:05 -07:00
pat_internal.h x86, pat: Fix memory leak in free_memtype 2010-05-26 11:26:04 -07:00
pat_rbtree.c rbtree: move augmented rbtree functionality to rbtree_augmented.h 2012-10-09 16:22:40 +09:00
pat.c x86: Do not try to sync identity map for non-mapped pages 2013-03-07 13:23:28 -08:00
pf_in.c x86: Eliminate various 'set but not used' warnings 2011-05-21 19:10:33 +02:00
pf_in.h
pgtable_32.c x86: use generic early_ioremap 2014-04-07 16:36:15 -07:00
pgtable.c x86, mm: Ensure correct alignment of the fixmap 2014-05-05 13:18:25 -07:00
physaddr.c x86, mm: Make DEBUG_VIRTUAL work earlier in boot 2013-01-25 16:33:22 -08:00
physaddr.h x86: split __phys_addr out into separate file 2009-09-10 11:48:55 -07:00
setup_nx.c x86: delete __cpuinit usage from all x86 files 2013-07-14 19:36:56 -04:00
srat.c x86/mm: Avoid duplicated pxm_to_node() calls 2014-02-09 15:32:31 +01:00
testmmiotrace.c x86, kmmio/mmiotrace: Fix double free of kmmio_fault_pages 2010-06-18 11:30:09 +02:00
tlb.c x86/mm: Eliminate redundant page table walk during TLB range flushing 2014-01-25 09:10:43 +01:00