| lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
|
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:14:15 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
Mike Travis <travis@....com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] unbreak alpha percpu
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 06:05:07PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 05:50:30PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 09:21:08AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > >
> > > Hmm. I certainly personally _much_ prefer this version.
> > >
> > > It looks like this actually simplifies things for S390 too (no more
> > > simple_identifier_##var games), and generally just looks better. And
> > > seeing that the S390 special case is no longer S390-specific is also a
> > > good sign, imho.
> >
> > simple_identifier_##var has been debris from back when Ingo forced
> > s390 to use asm-generic/percpu.h; if you look at it, you'll see that
> > a) it hadn't worked (look at the argument list carefully) and
> > b) get_cpu_var() has the working version anyway
> >
> > Less obvious part is that if it actually *would* work, we'd be screwed -
> > unlike get_cpu_var() this sucker is called for things that are not
> > simple variables; didn't happen for alpha, but did for s390.
> >
> > IOW, that's just an old piece of junk that got removed now.
>
> Fsck... It breaks per_cpu_ptr() :-/ OK, back to square one, then...
... and the reason we didn't step into that one on alpha et.al. is that it
doesn't have HAVE_DYNAMIC_PER_CPU_AREA - only x86 does. It's *still*
fixable, but we need a different primitive for that one.
diff --git a/arch/alpha/include/asm/percpu.h b/arch/alpha/include/asm/percpu.h
index 3495e8e..1c52a2d 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/include/asm/percpu.h
+++ b/arch/alpha/include/asm/percpu.h
@@ -3,33 +3,8 @@
#include <linux/compiler.h>
#include <linux/threads.h>
-/*
- * Determine the real variable name from the name visible in the
- * kernel sources.
- */
-#define per_cpu_var(var) per_cpu__##var
-
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
-
-/*
- * per_cpu_offset() is the offset that has to be added to a
- * percpu variable to get to the instance for a certain processor.
- */
-extern unsigned long __per_cpu_offset[NR_CPUS];
-
-#define per_cpu_offset(x) (__per_cpu_offset[x])
-
-#define __my_cpu_offset per_cpu_offset(raw_smp_processor_id())
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT
-#define my_cpu_offset per_cpu_offset(smp_processor_id())
-#else
-#define my_cpu_offset __my_cpu_offset
-#endif
-
-#ifndef MODULE
-#define SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR(var, offset) RELOC_HIDE(&per_cpu_var(var), (offset))
-#define PER_CPU_ATTRIBUTES
-#else
+#ifdef MODULE
/*
* To calculate addresses of locally defined variables, GCC uses 32-bit
* displacement from the GP. Which doesn't work for per cpu variables in
@@ -39,40 +14,15 @@ extern unsigned long __per_cpu_offset[NR_CPUS];
* ldq instruction with a 'literal' relocation.
*/
#define SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR(var, offset) ({ \
- extern int simple_identifier_##var(void); \
unsigned long __ptr, tmp_gp; \
asm ( "br %1, 1f \n\
1: ldgp %1, 0(%1) \n\
ldq %0, per_cpu__" #var"(%1)\t!literal" \
: "=&r"(__ptr), "=&r"(tmp_gp)); \
(typeof(&per_cpu_var(var)))(__ptr + (offset)); })
-
-#define PER_CPU_ATTRIBUTES __used
-
#endif /* MODULE */
-
-/*
- * A percpu variable may point to a discarded regions. The following are
- * established ways to produce a usable pointer from the percpu variable
- * offset.
- */
-#define per_cpu(var, cpu) \
- (*SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR(var, per_cpu_offset(cpu)))
-#define __get_cpu_var(var) \
- (*SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR(var, my_cpu_offset))
-#define __raw_get_cpu_var(var) \
- (*SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR(var, __my_cpu_offset))
-
-#else /* ! SMP */
-
-#define per_cpu(var, cpu) (*((void)(cpu), &per_cpu_var(var)))
-#define __get_cpu_var(var) per_cpu_var(var)
-#define __raw_get_cpu_var(var) per_cpu_var(var)
-
-#define PER_CPU_ATTRIBUTES
-
#endif /* SMP */
-#define DECLARE_PER_CPU(type, name) extern __typeof__(type) per_cpu_var(name)
+#include <asm-generic/percpu.h>
#endif /* __ALPHA_PERCPU_H */
diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/percpu.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/percpu.h
index 408d60b..6a71d73 100644
--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/percpu.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/percpu.h
@@ -13,20 +13,18 @@
*/
#if defined(__s390x__) && defined(MODULE)
-#define SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR(ptr,offset) (({ \
- extern int simple_identifier_##var(void); \
+#define SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR(var,offset) (({ \
unsigned long *__ptr; \
asm ( "larl %0, %1@...ENT" \
- : "=a" (__ptr) : "X" (ptr) ); \
- (typeof(ptr))((*__ptr) + (offset)); }))
+ : "=a" (__ptr) : "X" (&per_cpu_var(var)) ); \
+ (typeof(&per_cpu_var(var)))((*__ptr) + (offset)); }))
#else
-#define SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR(ptr, offset) (({ \
- extern int simple_identifier_##var(void); \
+#define SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR(var, offset) (({ \
unsigned long __ptr; \
- asm ( "" : "=a" (__ptr) : "0" (ptr) ); \
- (typeof(ptr)) (__ptr + (offset)); }))
+ asm ( "" : "=a" (__ptr) : "0" (&per_cpu_var(var)) ); \
+ (typeof(&per_cpu_var(var))) (__ptr + (offset)); }))
#endif
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h
index aee103b..5ff94d2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h
@@ -202,4 +202,6 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, this_cpu_off);
#endif /* !CONFIG_SMP */
+#define PERCPU_PTR RELOC_HIDE
+
#endif /* _ASM_X86_PERCPU_H */
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/percpu.h b/include/asm-generic/percpu.h
index 00f45ff..4543078 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/percpu.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/percpu.h
@@ -42,10 +42,10 @@ extern unsigned long __per_cpu_offset[NR_CPUS];
/*
* Add a offset to a pointer but keep the pointer as is.
*
- * Only S390 provides its own means of moving the pointer.
+ * Only S390 and Alpha provide their own means of moving the pointer.
*/
#ifndef SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR
-#define SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR(__p, __offset) RELOC_HIDE((__p), (__offset))
+#define SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR(__v, __offset) RELOC_HIDE((&per_cpu_var(__v)), (__offset))
#endif
/*
@@ -54,11 +54,11 @@ extern unsigned long __per_cpu_offset[NR_CPUS];
* offset.
*/
#define per_cpu(var, cpu) \
- (*SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR(&per_cpu_var(var), per_cpu_offset(cpu)))
+ (*SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR(var, per_cpu_offset(cpu)))
#define __get_cpu_var(var) \
- (*SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR(&per_cpu_var(var), my_cpu_offset))
+ (*SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR(var, my_cpu_offset))
#define __raw_get_cpu_var(var) \
- (*SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR(&per_cpu_var(var), __my_cpu_offset))
+ (*SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR(var, __my_cpu_offset))
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA
diff --git a/include/linux/percpu.h b/include/linux/percpu.h
index ee5615d..11a8a11 100644
--- a/include/linux/percpu.h
+++ b/include/linux/percpu.h
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ extern ssize_t __init pcpu_embed_first_chunk(
* dynamically allocated. Non-atomic access to the current CPU's
* version should probably be combined with get_cpu()/put_cpu().
*/
-#define per_cpu_ptr(ptr, cpu) SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR((ptr), per_cpu_offset((cpu)))
+#define per_cpu_ptr(ptr, cpu) PERCPU_PTR((ptr), per_cpu_offset((cpu)))
extern void *__alloc_reserved_percpu(size_t size, size_t align);
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists