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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<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>
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<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: add notrace annotations to vsyscall.</title>
<updated>2008-05-23T18:31:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2008-05-12T19:20:41+00:00</published>
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Add the notrace annotations to the vsyscall functions - there we are
not in kernel context yet, so the tracer function cannot (and must not)
be called.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Add the notrace annotations to the vsyscall functions - there we are
not in kernel context yet, so the tracer function cannot (and must not)
be called.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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<title>x86: introduce native_read_tscp</title>
<updated>2008-01-30T12:31:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Glauber de Oliveira Costa</name>
<email>gcosta@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2008-01-30T12:31:06+00:00</published>
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Targetting paravirt, this patch introduces native_read_tscp, in
place of rdtscp() macro. When in a paravirt guest, this will
involve a function call, and thus, cannot be done in the vdso area.
These users then have to call the native version directly

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa &lt;gcosta@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Targetting paravirt, this patch introduces native_read_tscp, in
place of rdtscp() macro. When in a paravirt guest, this will
involve a function call, and thus, cannot be done in the vdso area.
These users then have to call the native version directly

Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa &lt;gcosta@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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<title>x86: ignore the sys_getcpu() tcache parameter</title>
<updated>2007-11-17T15:27:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2007-11-07T17:37:48+00:00</published>
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dont use the vgetcpu tcache - it's causing problems with tasks
migrating, they'll see the old cache up to a jiffy after the
migration, further increasing the costs of the migration.

In the worst case they see a complete bogus information from
the tcache, when a sys_getcpu() call "invalidated" the cache
info by incrementing the jiffies _and_ the cpuid info in the
cache and the following vdso_getcpu() call happens after
vdso_jiffies have been incremented.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper &lt;drepper@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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dont use the vgetcpu tcache - it's causing problems with tasks
migrating, they'll see the old cache up to a jiffy after the
migration, further increasing the costs of the migration.

In the worst case they see a complete bogus information from
the tcache, when a sys_getcpu() call "invalidated" the cache
info by incrementing the jiffies _and_ the cpuid info in the
cache and the following vdso_getcpu() call happens after
vdso_jiffies have been incremented.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper &lt;drepper@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>x86_64: move vdso</title>
<updated>2007-10-11T09:17:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-11T09:17:10+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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