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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@MIT.EDU>2011-05-23 17:31:24 +0400
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2011-05-24 16:51:28 +0400
commit8c49d9a74bac5ea3f18480307057241b808fcc0c (patch)
treea9d2d8160ca37e9292e605cf3cdd85b29646c4b7 /arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h
parentd762f4383100c2a87b1a3f2d678cd3b5425655b4 (diff)
downloadlinux-8c49d9a74bac5ea3f18480307057241b808fcc0c.tar.xz
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 <luto@mit.edu> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C7357882fbb51fa30491636a7b6528747301b7ee9.1306156808.git.luto%40mit.edu%3E Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h12
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 10 deletions
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 <linux/seqlock.h>
-#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 <asm/vvar.h>
+
extern void map_vsyscall(void);
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */