linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] Add 32 bit VDSO time support for 32 bit kernel

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Date:	Sat, 01 Feb 2014 16:26:11 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net>
CC:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
	andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com, Martin.Runge@...de-schwarz.com,
	Andreas.Brief@...de-schwarz.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Add 32 bit VDSO time support for 32 bit kernel

On 02/01/2014 03:59 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
>   If it is, indeed, okay to use non-fixed maps on 32-bit, it might
> also be okay on 64-bit.  If so, it could be useful to implement that,
> which would remove a bit of a wart and allow PR_SET_TSC to work
> usefully for 64-bit userspace.  (This would remove the need for the
> VVAR macro and would allow shorter rip-relative address modes.)
> 

We can't really move the 64-bit legacy vsyscall area, though, as it is
an ABI.  It can be disabled with vsyscall=none, but Linus has vehemently
vetoed removing them.

>  (Note that those fixmaps are a security problem on native 32-bit if
> NX is not available.  We may not care.)

Not only on native 32 bit... although the amount of 64-bit hardware
without NX is quite small, the same is true for anywhere near modern
32-bit hardware.

>>
>> -#define VDSO_HIGH_BASE         0xffffe000U /* CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO address */
>> +#define VDSO_HIGH_BASE         0xffffc000U /* CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO address */
> 
> This is odd.  Can you explain it?
> 

He needs 3 pages instead of 1 after his changes.

	-hpa


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