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>
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..341b355
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+/*
+ * vvar.h: Shared vDSO/kernel variable declarations
+ * Copyright (c) 2011 Andy Lutomirski
+ * Subject to the GNU General Public License, version 2
+ *
+ * A handful of variables are accessible (read-only) from userspace
+ * code in the vsyscall page and the vdso. They are declared here.
+ * Some other file must define them with DEFINE_VVAR.
+ *
+ * In normal kernel code, they are used like any other variable.
+ * In user code, they are accessed through the VVAR macro.
+ *
+ * Each of these variables lives in the vsyscall page, and each
+ * one needs a unique offset within the little piece of the page
+ * reserved for vvars. Specify that offset in DECLARE_VVAR.
+ * (There are 896 bytes available. If you mess up, the linker will
+ * catch it.)
+ */
+
+/* Offset of vars within vsyscall page */
+#define VSYSCALL_VARS_OFFSET (3072 + 128)
+
+#if defined(__VVAR_KERNEL_LDS)
+
+/* The kernel linker script defines its own magic to put vvars in the
+ * right place.
+ */
+#define DECLARE_VVAR(offset, type, name) \
+ EMIT_VVAR(name, VSYSCALL_VARS_OFFSET + offset)
+
+#else
+
+#define DECLARE_VVAR(offset, type, name) \
+ static type const * const vvaraddr_ ## name = \
+ (void *)(VSYSCALL_START + VSYSCALL_VARS_OFFSET + (offset));
+
+#define DEFINE_VVAR(type, name) \
+ type __vvar_ ## name \
+ __attribute__((section(".vsyscall_var_" #name), aligned(16)))
+
+#define VVAR(name) (*vvaraddr_ ## name)
+
+#endif
+
+/* DECLARE_VVAR(offset, type, name) */
+
+DECLARE_VVAR(0, volatile unsigned long, jiffies)
+DECLARE_VVAR(8, int, vgetcpu_mode)
+DECLARE_VVAR(128, struct vsyscall_gtod_data, vsyscall_gtod_data)
+
+#undef DECLARE_VVAR
+#undef VSYSCALL_VARS_OFFSET