linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/8] Add 32 bit VDSO time support for 32 bit kernel

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Message-ID: <CALCETrWvPkJo=3o3EZ+ZnFJgKak-7GjcJbsinn6z7wsB3393hg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 3 Feb 2014 08:36:20 -0800
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	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>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.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 7/8] Add 32 bit VDSO time support for 32 bit kernel

On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net> wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 02.02.2014, 16:12 -0800 schrieb Andy Lutomirski:
>> On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net> wrote:
>> > Am Sonntag, den 02.02.2014, 08:46 -0800 schrieb Andy Lutomirski:
>> >> On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 3:27 AM,  <stefani@...bold.net> wrote:
>> >> > From: Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net>
>> >> >
>> >> > This patch add the time support for 32 bit a VDSO to a 32 bit kernel.
>> >>
>> >> [...]
>> >>
>> >> Can you address the review comments from last time around?  For
>> >> example, this still seems to have redundant vvar and hpet mappings, it
>> >> doesn't use the VVAR macro, it moves the 32-bit compat vDSO, etc.
>> >>
>> >
>> > I will address the compat VDSO issue.
>> >
>> > But the VVAR macro will be not a part of this patch set. If you depend
>> > on this, feel free to create one. From my point of view this is not
>> > feasible without a macro hacking, because the address accessing the vvar
>> > area differs in kernel and VDSO user mode.
>>
>> Sorry, but "I will make the code messier for no apparent reason and I
>> will not offer to fix it in the same series" gets my NAK.
>>
>> Hint: I'm talking about two or three lines of code in vvar.h.
>>
>
> A hint back: if you threat me with a NAK for a requested code sequence
> which currently no user, this is far away from professional. I am not
> your trainee.
>
> BTW: If it is so easy, send me the two or three lines and i will merge
> it ;-)

Something to the effect of:

#elif defined(BUILD_VDSO32)
#define VVAR(name) (*vvar_ ## name)
#endif

Should do the trick.

>
>> >
>> > I also see no redundant mapping. There are two modes, one is the map of
>> > the kernel area the other maps the VDSO into the user space area. This
>> > is exactly the behaviour of the origin VDSO implementation.
>>
>> No.
>>
>> In your series there are *three* mappings.  There are:
>>
>>  - The linear mapping that the kernel loader sets up (the writable
>> mapping used in the kernel).  This is implicit and, of course, fine.
>>  - There's the fixmap page, which aliases the normal kernel mapping at
>> a fixed address with the user, ro, and nx attributes.  The 64-bit vDSO
>> uses that mapping.  See vdso.h -- it's all arranged pretty clearly.
>> Your code, for no discernible reason, sets up a fixmap entry on
>> *32-bit* kernels.
>>  - The vma that you're setting up adjacent to the actual vdso text.
>> This is what you are using.
>>
>> Please choose *one* user-readable mapping for the 32-bit vdso and
>> stick with it.  If the 64-bit vdso can use it to and userspace doesn't
>> break, even better.  But a pointless set of extra fixmap entries is
>> not okay.
>>
>
> Again: I wrote that there are two modes for a 32 bit kernel and
> therefore there are two mappings at the same time. Since there are both
> ways available in a 32 bit kernel via the vdso32= kernel parameter, both
> must be supported.
>
> Due the lack of a real fixmap for a 32 bit kernel (FIXADDR_TOP is a
> variable), the HPET and VVAR Page can only relative addressed. So this
> pages must located before or after the VDSO.
>
> This is why i need to setup this pages into the fixmap area, this is the
> compat mode "vdso32=2".
>
> For "vdso32=1" i need to map the VDSO Page together with the HPET and
> VVAR into the user space.
>
> For compability reasons both mappings are required.

Not at the same time, and I don't think you've guarded the
map_vsyscall call with a check for compat mode.

--Andy
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