BMC/Intel-BMC/linux.git/arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h, branch dev

x86,vdso: Use LSL unconditionally for vgetcpu

2014-11-03T12:41:53+00:00

LSL is faster than RDTSCP and works everywhere; there's no need to switch between them depending on CPU. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Andi Kleen Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/72f73d5ec4514e02bba345b9759177ef03742efb.1414706021.git.luto@amacapital.net Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

x86_64/vdso: Remove jiffies from the vvar page

2014-10-28T10:22:13+00:00

I think that the jiffies vvar was once used for the vgetcpu cache. That code is long gone, so let's just make jiffies be a normal variable. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fcfee6f8749af14d96373a9e2656354ad0b95499.1411494540.git.luto@amacapital.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86, vdso: Move the vvar and hpet mappings next to the 64-bit vDSO

2014-05-05T20:19:01+00:00

This makes the 64-bit and x32 vdsos use the same mechanism as the 32-bit vdso. Most of the churn is deleting all the old fixmap code. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8af87023f57f6bb96ec8d17fce3f88018195b49b.1399317206.git.luto@amacapital.net Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

x86, vdso: Add 32 bit VDSO time support for 64 bit kernel

2014-03-18T19:52:41+00:00

This patch add the VDSO time support for the IA32 Emulation Layer. Due the nature of the kernel headers and the LP64 compiler where the size of a long and a pointer differs against a 32 bit compiler, there is some type hacking necessary for optimal performance. The vsyscall_gtod_data struture must be a rearranged to serve 32- and 64-bit code access at the same time: - The seqcount_t was replaced by an unsigned, this makes the vsyscall_gtod_data intedepend of kernel configuration and internal functions. - All kernel internal structures are replaced by fix size elements which works for 32- and 64-bit access - The inner struct clock was removed to pack the whole struct. The "unsigned seq" would be handled by functions derivated from seqcount_t. Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395094933-14252-11-git-send-email-stefani@seibold.net Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

x86, vdso: Introduce VVAR marco for vdso32

2014-03-18T19:52:29+00:00

This patch revamps the vvar.h for introduce the VVAR macro for vdso32. Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395094933-14252-8-git-send-email-stefani@seibold.net Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

x86, vdso: Make vsyscall_gtod_data handling x86 generic

2014-03-18T19:51:52+00:00

This patch move the vsyscall_gtod_data handling out of vsyscall_64.c into an additonal file vsyscall_gtod.c to make the functionality available for x86 32 bit kernel. It also adds a new vsyscall_32.c which setup the VVAR page. Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395094933-14252-2-git-send-email-stefani@seibold.net Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

x86, asmlinkage, vdso: Mark vdso variables __visible

2013-08-06T21:21:08+00:00

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375740170-7446-17-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

x86-64: Give vvars their own page

2011-06-05T19:30:32+00:00

Move vvars out of the vsyscall page into their own page and mark it NX. Without this patch, an attacker who can force a daemon to call some fixed address could wait until the time contains, say, 0xCD80, and then execute the current time. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Jesper Juhl Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Jan Beulich Cc: richard -rw- weinberger Cc: Mikael Pettersson Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Louis Rilling Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b1460f81dc4463d66ea3f2b5ce240f58d48effec.1307292171.git.luto@mit.edu Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86-64: Fix alignment of jiffies variable

2011-06-05T19:30:31+00:00

It's declared __attribute__((aligned(16)) but it's explicitly not aligned. This is probably harmless but it's a bit embarrassing. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Jesper Juhl Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Jan Beulich Cc: richard -rw- weinberger Cc: Mikael Pettersson Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Louis Rilling Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5f3bc5542e9aaa9382d53f153f54373165cdef89.1307292171.git.luto@mit.edu Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86-64: Clean up vdso/kernel shared variables

2011-05-24T12:51:28+00:00

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