[PATCH v2 0/4] vDSO fixes, on top of tip/x86/vdso

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Thu Feb 27 2014 - 19:18:33 EST


I'd still like someone else to confirm that the 32-bit vDSO is working
on all common configurations before I'm happy with it, but this should
be a considerable improvement.

Someone who maintains the clock code should review the changes in:

commit 0fc8a237cbe98a06962f5ea37d24fc2369e23c74
Author: Stefani Seibold <stefani@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Feb 19 10:09:10 2014 +0100

x86, vdso: Add 32-bit VDSO time support for the 64-bit kernel

very carefully.

There's still something extremely questionable about VDSO_PAGES in the
32-bit vDSO code. It appears to be terminally screwed up, and AFAICS it
only works at all because none of the 32-bit vDSO images ever exceed
4096 bytes.

Note: Patch 4 fixes a bug that's present even in -linus, so it might
make sense to send it to Linus more quickly than the rest of this
series.

Changes from v1:
- Adjust CFLAGS instead of using asmlinkage.
- Add more fixes.

Andy Lutomirski (4):
x86: Use the default ABI for the 32-bit vDSO
x86: Inline the CLOCK_MONOTONIC vdso code
x86: Patch alternatives in the 32-bit vDSO
x86: Zero-pad the VVAR page

arch/x86/include/asm/vdso.h | 2 ++
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 5 +++++
arch/x86/vdso/Makefile | 2 +-
arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c | 2 +-
arch/x86/vdso/vdso32-setup.c | 25 +++++++++++++------------
arch/x86/vdso/vma.c | 9 ++++++---
6 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

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