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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/x86/vdso/Makefile, branch v3.4.46</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>x32: Add x32 VDSO support</title>
<updated>2012-02-20T20:52:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. J. Lu</name>
<email>hjl.tools@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-02-19T19:38:06+00:00</published>
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Add support for the x32 VDSO.  The x32 VDSO takes advantage of the
similarity between the x86-64 and the x32 ABIs to contain the same
content, only the container is different, as the x32 VDSO obviously is
an x32 shared object.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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Add support for the x32 VDSO.  The x32 VDSO takes advantage of the
similarity between the x86-64 and the x32 ABIs to contain the same
content, only the container is different, as the x32 VDSO obviously is
an x32 shared object.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86-64: Add --no-undefined to vDSO build</title>
<updated>2011-07-13T18:23:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-13T13:24:12+00:00</published>
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This gives much nicer diagnostics when something goes wrong.  It's
supported at least as far back as binutils 2.15.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@mit.edu&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/de0b50920469ff6359c529526e7639fdd36fa83c.1310563276.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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This gives much nicer diagnostics when something goes wrong.  It's
supported at least as far back as binutils 2.15.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@mit.edu&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/de0b50920469ff6359c529526e7639fdd36fa83c.1310563276.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86-64: Turn off -pg and turn on -foptimize-sibling-calls for vDSO</title>
<updated>2011-05-24T12:51:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@MIT.EDU</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-23T13:31:29+00:00</published>
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The vDSO isn't part of the kernel, so profiling and kernel
backtraces don't really matter.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@amd64.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C23087b738c037342abb53f2f07b9bef89ceaeea3.1306156808.git.luto%40mit.edu%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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The vDSO isn't part of the kernel, so profiling and kernel
backtraces don't really matter.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@amd64.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C23087b738c037342abb53f2f07b9bef89ceaeea3.1306156808.git.luto%40mit.edu%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86-64: Clean up vdso/kernel shared variables</title>
<updated>2011-05-24T12:51:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@MIT.EDU</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-23T13:31:24+00:00</published>
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Variables that are shared between the vdso and the kernel are
currently a bit of a mess.  They are each defined with their own
magic, they are accessed differently in the kernel, the vsyscall page,
and the vdso, and one of them (vsyscall_clock) doesn't even really
exist.

This changes them all to use a common mechanism.  All of them are
delcared in vvar.h with a fixed address (validated by the linker
script).  In the kernel (as before), they look like ordinary
read-write variables.  In the vsyscall page and the vdso, they are
accessed through a new macro VVAR, which gives read-only access.

The vdso is now loaded verbatim into memory without any fixups.  As a
side bonus, access from the vdso is faster because a level of
indirection is removed.

While we're at it, pack jiffies and vgetcpu_mode into the same
cacheline.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@amd64.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C7357882fbb51fa30491636a7b6528747301b7ee9.1306156808.git.luto%40mit.edu%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Variables that are shared between the vdso and the kernel are
currently a bit of a mess.  They are each defined with their own
magic, they are accessed differently in the kernel, the vsyscall page,
and the vdso, and one of them (vsyscall_clock) doesn't even really
exist.

This changes them all to use a common mechanism.  All of them are
delcared in vvar.h with a fixed address (validated by the linker
script).  In the kernel (as before), they look like ordinary
read-write variables.  In the vsyscall page and the vdso, they are
accessed through a new macro VVAR, which gives read-only access.

The vdso is now loaded verbatim into memory without any fixups.  As a
side bonus, access from the vdso is faster because a level of
indirection is removed.

While we're at it, pack jiffies and vgetcpu_mode into the same
cacheline.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@amd64.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C7357882fbb51fa30491636a7b6528747301b7ee9.1306156808.git.luto%40mit.edu%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86, gcc-4.6: Use gcc -m options when building vdso</title>
<updated>2010-12-14T00:08:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-14T00:01:38+00:00</published>
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The vdso Makefile passes linker-style -m options not to the linker but
to gcc.  This happens to work with earlier gcc, but fails with gcc
4.6.  Pass gcc-style -m options, instead.

Note: all currently supported versions of gcc supports -m32, so there
is no reason to conditionalize it any more.

Reported-by: H. J. Lu &lt;hjl.tools@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;tip-*@git.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
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The vdso Makefile passes linker-style -m options not to the linker but
to gcc.  This happens to work with earlier gcc, but fails with gcc
4.6.  Pass gcc-style -m options, instead.

Note: all currently supported versions of gcc supports -m32, so there
is no reason to conditionalize it any more.

Reported-by: H. J. Lu &lt;hjl.tools@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;tip-*@git.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, vdso: Error out if the vdso contains external references</title>
<updated>2010-06-18T21:46:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-18T21:36:26+00:00</published>
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The vdso is a piece of userspace code which is supposed to be fully
self-contained.  Any external (undefined) reference is an error, and
should be caught at compile time.  This was giving us trouble when
compiling with -Os on gcc 4.5.0, for example (failed inline).

The need to do a buildtime check was pointed out by Andi Kleen.

Reported-by: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;tip-*@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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The vdso is a piece of userspace code which is supposed to be fully
self-contained.  Any external (undefined) reference is an error, and
should be caught at compile time.  This was giving us trouble when
compiling with -Os on gcc 4.5.0, for example (failed inline).

The need to do a buildtime check was pointed out by Andi Kleen.

Reported-by: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;tip-*@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: rename ld-option to cc-ldoption</title>
<updated>2009-09-20T10:27:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sam Ravnborg</name>
<email>sam@ravnborg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-19T08:14:33+00:00</published>
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ld-option is misnamed as it test options to gcc, not to ld.
Renamed it to reflect this.

Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
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ld-option is misnamed as it test options to gcc, not to ld.
Renamed it to reflect this.

Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>gcov: enable GCOV_PROFILE_ALL for x86_64</title>
<updated>2009-06-18T20:03:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Oberparleiter</name>
<email>oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-17T23:28:09+00:00</published>
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Enable gcov profiling of the entire kernel on x86_64. Required changes
include disabling profiling for:

* arch/kernel/acpi/realmode and arch/kernel/boot/compressed:
  not linked to main kernel
* arch/vdso, arch/kernel/vsyscall_64 and arch/kernel/hpet:
  profiling causes segfaults during boot (incompatible context)

Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter &lt;oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Li Wei &lt;W.Li@Sun.COM&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;michaele@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: WANG Cong &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Enable gcov profiling of the entire kernel on x86_64. Required changes
include disabling profiling for:

* arch/kernel/acpi/realmode and arch/kernel/boot/compressed:
  not linked to main kernel
* arch/vdso, arch/kernel/vsyscall_64 and arch/kernel/hpet:
  profiling causes segfaults during boot (incompatible context)

Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter &lt;oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Huang Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Li Wei &lt;W.Li@Sun.COM&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;michaele@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: WANG Cong &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: no stack protector for vdso</title>
<updated>2009-02-09T23:41:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-09T13:17:40+00:00</published>
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Impact: avoid crash on vsyscall

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Impact: avoid crash on vsyscall

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86_64: further cleanup of 32-bit compat syscall mechanisms</title>
<updated>2008-07-16T09:08:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeremy Fitzhardinge</name>
<email>jeremy@goop.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-12T09:22:00+00:00</published>
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AMD only supports "syscall" from 32-bit compat usermode.
Intel and Centaur(?) only support "sysenter" from 32-bit compat usermode.

Set the X86 feature bits accordingly, and set up the vdso in
accordance with those bits.  On the offchance we run on in a 64-bit
environment which supports neither syscall nor sysenter from 32-bit
mode, then fall back to the int $0x80 vdso.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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AMD only supports "syscall" from 32-bit compat usermode.
Intel and Centaur(?) only support "sysenter" from 32-bit compat usermode.

Set the X86 feature bits accordingly, and set up the vdso in
accordance with those bits.  On the offchance we run on in a 64-bit
environment which supports neither syscall nor sysenter from 32-bit
mode, then fall back to the int $0x80 vdso.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
</pre>
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