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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>2011-07-13 17:24:16 +0400
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2011-07-15 04:57:09 +0400
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Document the vDSO and add a reference parser
It turns out that parsing the vDSO is nontrivial if you don't already have an ELF dynamic loader around. So document it in Documentation/ABI and add a reference CC0-licenced parser. This code is dedicated to Go issue 1933: http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=1933 Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a315a9514cd71bcf29436cc31e35aada21a5ff21.1310563276.git.luto@mit.edu Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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+/*
+ * vdso_test.c: Sample code to test parse_vdso.c on x86_64
+ * Copyright (c) 2011 Andy Lutomirski
+ * Subject to the GNU General Public License, version 2
+ *
+ * You can amuse yourself by compiling with:
+ * gcc -std=gnu99 -nostdlib
+ * -Os -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -flto
+ * vdso_test.c parse_vdso.c -o vdso_test
+ * to generate a small binary with no dependencies at all.
+ */
+
+#include <sys/syscall.h>
+#include <sys/time.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+extern void *vdso_sym(const char *version, const char *name);
+extern void vdso_init_from_sysinfo_ehdr(uintptr_t base);
+extern void vdso_init_from_auxv(void *auxv);
+
+/* We need a libc functions... */
+int strcmp(const char *a, const char *b)
+{
+ /* This implementation is buggy: it never returns -1. */
+ while (*a || *b) {
+ if (*a != *b)
+ return 1;
+ if (*a == 0 || *b == 0)
+ return 1;
+ a++;
+ b++;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/* ...and two syscalls. This is x86_64-specific. */
+static inline long linux_write(int fd, const void *data, size_t len)
+{
+
+ long ret;
+ asm volatile ("syscall" : "=a" (ret) : "a" (__NR_write),
+ "D" (fd), "S" (data), "d" (len) :
+ "cc", "memory", "rcx",
+ "r8", "r9", "r10", "r11" );
+ return ret;
+}
+
+static inline void linux_exit(int code)
+{
+ asm volatile ("syscall" : : "a" (__NR_exit), "D" (code));
+}
+
+void to_base10(char *lastdig, uint64_t n)
+{
+ while (n) {
+ *lastdig = (n % 10) + '0';
+ n /= 10;
+ lastdig--;
+ }
+}
+
+__attribute__((externally_visible)) void c_main(void **stack)
+{
+ /* Parse the stack */
+ long argc = (long)*stack;
+ stack += argc + 2;
+
+ /* Now we're pointing at the environment. Skip it. */
+ while(*stack)
+ stack++;
+ stack++;
+
+ /* Now we're pointing at auxv. Initialize the vDSO parser. */
+ vdso_init_from_auxv((void *)stack);
+
+ /* Find gettimeofday. */
+ typedef long (*gtod_t)(struct timeval *tv, struct timezone *tz);
+ gtod_t gtod = (gtod_t)vdso_sym("LINUX_2.6", "__vdso_gettimeofday");
+
+ if (!gtod)
+ linux_exit(1);
+
+ struct timeval tv;
+ long ret = gtod(&tv, 0);
+
+ if (ret == 0) {
+ char buf[] = "The time is .000000\n";
+ to_base10(buf + 31, tv.tv_sec);
+ to_base10(buf + 38, tv.tv_usec);
+ linux_write(1, buf, sizeof(buf) - 1);
+ } else {
+ linux_exit(ret);
+ }
+
+ linux_exit(0);
+}
+
+/*
+ * This is the real entry point. It passes the initial stack into
+ * the C entry point.
+ */
+asm (
+ ".text\n"
+ ".global _start\n"
+ ".type _start,@function\n"
+ "_start:\n\t"
+ "mov %rsp,%rdi\n\t"
+ "jmp c_main"
+ );