linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 18/26] arm64: Introduce asm/vdso/processor.h

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Date:   Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:55:00 +0000
From:   Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>
To:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:     linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
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        Mark Rutland <Mark.Rutland@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 18/26] arm64: Introduce asm/vdso/processor.h

Hi Catalin,

On 3/16/20 10:34 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
[...]


>>
>> I tried to fine grain the headers as much as I could in order to avoid
>> unneeded/unwanted inclusions:
>>  * TASK_SIZE_32 is used to verify ABI consistency on vdso32 (please refer to
>>    arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/vgettimeofday.c).
> 
> I see. But the test is probably useless. With 4K pages, TASK_SIZE_32 is
> 1UL << 32, so you can't have a u32 greater than this. So I'd argue that
> the ABI compatibility here doesn't matter.
> 
> With 16K or 64K pages, TASK_SIZE_32 is slightly smaller but arm32 never
> supported it.
> 
> What's the side-effect of dropping this check altogether?
> 

The main side-effect is that arm32 and arm64 compat have a different behavior,
that it is what we want to avoid.

The vdsotest [1] I am using, verifies all the side conditions with respect to
the ABI, which we are now compatible with. Removing those checks would break
this condition.

[1] https://github.com/nlynch-mentor/vdsotest

-- 
Regards,
Vincenzo