linux/arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h
Andy Lutomirski 8c49d9a74b x86-64: Clean up vdso/kernel shared variables
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 <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/%3C7357882fbb51fa30491636a7b6528747301b7ee9.1306156808.git.luto%40mit.edu%3E
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-05-24 14:51:28 +02:00

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#ifndef _ASM_X86_VSYSCALL_H
#define _ASM_X86_VSYSCALL_H
enum vsyscall_num {
__NR_vgettimeofday,
__NR_vtime,
__NR_vgetcpu,
};
#define VSYSCALL_START (-10UL << 20)
#define VSYSCALL_SIZE 1024
#define VSYSCALL_END (-2UL << 20)
#define VSYSCALL_MAPPED_PAGES 1
#define VSYSCALL_ADDR(vsyscall_nr) (VSYSCALL_START+VSYSCALL_SIZE*(vsyscall_nr))
#ifdef __KERNEL__
#include <linux/seqlock.h>
/* Definitions for CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME definitions */
#define __vsyscall_fn \
__attribute__ ((unused, __section__(".vsyscall_fn"))) notrace
#define VGETCPU_RDTSCP 1
#define VGETCPU_LSL 2
/* kernel space (writeable) */
extern int vgetcpu_mode;
extern struct timezone sys_tz;
#include <asm/vvar.h>
extern void map_vsyscall(void);
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#endif /* _ASM_X86_VSYSCALL_H */