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Christophe Leroy 74205b3fc2 powerpc/vdso: Add support for time namespaces
This patch adds the necessary glue to provide time namespaces.

Things are mainly copied from ARM64.

__arch_get_timens_vdso_data() calculates timens vdso data position
based on the vdso data position, knowing it is the next page in vvar.
This avoids having to redo the mflr/bcl/mflr/mtlr dance to locate
the page relative to running code position.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> # vDSO parts
Acked-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1a15495f80ec19a87b16cf874dbf7c3fa5ec40fe.1617209142.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
2021-04-14 23:04:44 +10:00
Raoni Fassina Firmino 24321ac668 powerpc/64/signal: Fix regression in __kernel_sigtramp_rt64() semantics
Commit 0138ba5783 ("powerpc/64/signal: Balance return predictor
stack in signal trampoline") changed __kernel_sigtramp_rt64() VDSO and
trampoline code, and introduced a regression in the way glibc's
backtrace()[1] detects the signal-handler stack frame. Apart from the
practical implications, __kernel_sigtramp_rt64() was a VDSO function
with the semantics that it is a function you can call from userspace
to end a signal handling. Now this semantics are no longer valid.

I believe the aforementioned change affects all releases since 5.9.

This patch tries to fix both the semantics and practical aspect of
__kernel_sigtramp_rt64() returning it to the previous code, whilst
keeping the intended behaviour of 0138ba5783 by adding a new symbol
to serve as the jump target from the kernel to the trampoline. Now the
trampoline has two parts, a new entry point and the old return point.

[1] https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2021-January/223194.html

Fixes: 0138ba5783 ("powerpc/64/signal: Balance return predictor stack in signal trampoline")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.9+
Signed-off-by: Raoni Fassina Firmino <raoni@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
[mpe: Minor tweaks to change log formatting, add stable tag]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210201200505.iz46ubcizipnkcxe@work-tp
2021-02-02 22:14:41 +11:00
Youling Tang a21df7a1d6 powerpc: Use common STABS_DEBUG and DWARF_DEBUG and ELF_DETAILS macro
Use the common STABS_DEBUG and DWARF_DEBUG and ELF_DETAILS macro rule for
the linker script in an effort.

Signed-off-by: Youling Tang <tangyouling@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1606460857-2723-1-git-send-email-tangyouling@loongson.cn
2020-12-04 01:01:20 +11:00
Christophe Leroy 676155ab23 powerpc/vdso: Remove VDSO32_LBASE and VDSO64_LBASE
VDSO32_LBASE and VDSO64_LBASE are 0. Remove them to simplify code.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6c4d6570d886bbe1cc471e8ca01602e4b4d9beb5.1601197618.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
2020-12-04 01:01:19 +11:00
Christophe Leroy 49bf59fd03 powerpc/vdso: Remove __kernel_datapage_offset
__kernel_datapage_offset is not used anymore, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ddb5c746bec4e1a026d7c85243213a1876ef844f.1601197618.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
2020-12-04 01:01:18 +11:00
Christophe Leroy 0fc980db9a powerpc/vdso: Merge __kernel_sync_dicache_p5() into __kernel_sync_dicache()
__kernel_sync_dicache_p5() is an alternative to
__kernel_sync_dicache() when cpu has CPU_FTR_COHERENT_ICACHE

Remove this alternative function and merge
__kernel_sync_dicache_p5() into __kernel_sync_dicache() using
standard CPU feature fixup.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4c7dcc6544882761b2b0249d7a8ec2c3a8088cb5.1601197618.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
2020-12-04 01:01:17 +11:00
Christophe Leroy ed07f6353d powerpc/vdso: Use builtin symbols to locate fixup section
Add builtin symbols to locate fixup section and use them
instead of locating sections through elf headers at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2954526981859ca1ccfcfc7a7c4263920e9ddfcb.1601197618.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
2020-12-04 01:01:17 +11:00
Christophe Leroy 91bf695596 powerpc/vdso: Retrieve sigtramp offsets at buildtime
This is copied from arm64.

Instead of using runtime generated signal trampoline offsets,
get offsets at buildtime.

If the said trampoline doesn't exist, build will fail. So no
need to check whether the trampoline exists or not in the VDSO.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f8bfd6812c3e3678b1cdb4d55a52f9eb022b40d3.1601197618.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
2020-12-04 01:01:17 +11:00
Christophe Leroy 591857b635 powerpc/vdso: Simplify __get_datapage()
The VDSO datapage and the text pages are always located immediately
next to each other, so it can be hardcoded without an indirection
through __kernel_datapage_offset

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b08f5ef99d64cfc38f79b7ad5310d9b4d2479eeb.1601197618.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
2020-12-04 01:01:17 +11:00
Christophe Leroy ab037dd87a powerpc/vdso: Switch VDSO to generic C implementation.
With the C VDSO, the performance is slightly lower, but it is worth
it as it will ease maintenance and evolution, and also brings clocks
that are not supported with the ASM VDSO.

On an 8xx at 132 MHz, vdsotest with the ASM VDSO:
  gettimeofday:    		  vdso:  828 nsec/call
  clock-getres-realtime-coarse:   vdso:  391 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-realtime-coarse:  vdso:  614 nsec/call
  clock-getres-realtime:    	  vdso:  460 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-realtime:    	  vdso:  876 nsec/call
  clock-getres-monotonic-coarse:  vdso:  399 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse: vdso:  691 nsec/call
  clock-getres-monotonic:    	  vdso:  460 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-monotonic:    	  vdso: 1026 nsec/call

On an 8xx at 132 MHz, vdsotest with the C VDSO:
  gettimeofday:    		  vdso:  955 nsec/call
  clock-getres-realtime-coarse:   vdso:  545 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-realtime-coarse:  vdso:  592 nsec/call
  clock-getres-realtime:          vdso:  545 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-realtime:    	  vdso:  941 nsec/call
  clock-getres-monotonic-coarse:  vdso:  545 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse: vdso:  591 nsec/call
  clock-getres-monotonic:         vdso:  545 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-monotonic:        vdso:  940 nsec/call

It is even better for gettime with monotonic clocks.

Unsupported clocks with ASM VDSO:
  clock-gettime-boottime:         vdso: 3851 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-tai:      	  vdso: 3852 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-monotonic-raw:    vdso: 3396 nsec/call

Same clocks with C VDSO:
  clock-gettime-tai:              vdso:  941 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-monotonic-raw:    vdso: 1001 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse: vdso:  591 nsec/call

On an 8321E at 333 MHz, vdsotest with the ASM VDSO:
  gettimeofday:     		  vdso: 220 nsec/call
  clock-getres-realtime-coarse:   vdso: 102 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-realtime-coarse:  vdso: 178 nsec/call
  clock-getres-realtime:          vdso: 129 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-realtime:    	  vdso: 235 nsec/call
  clock-getres-monotonic-coarse:  vdso: 105 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 208 nsec/call
  clock-getres-monotonic:         vdso: 129 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-monotonic:        vdso: 274 nsec/call

On an 8321E at 333 MHz, vdsotest with the C VDSO:
  gettimeofday:    		  vdso: 272 nsec/call
  clock-getres-realtime-coarse:   vdso: 160 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-realtime-coarse:  vdso: 184 nsec/call
  clock-getres-realtime:          vdso: 166 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-realtime:         vdso: 281 nsec/call
  clock-getres-monotonic-coarse:  vdso: 160 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse: vdso: 184 nsec/call
  clock-getres-monotonic:         vdso: 169 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-monotonic:        vdso: 275 nsec/call

On a Power9 Nimbus DD2.2 at 3.8GHz, with the ASM VDSO:
  clock-gettime-monotonic:    	  vdso:  35 nsec/call
  clock-getres-monotonic:    	  vdso:  16 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse: vdso:  18 nsec/call
  clock-getres-monotonic-coarse:  vdso: 522 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-monotonic-raw:    vdso: 598 nsec/call
  clock-getres-monotonic-raw:     vdso: 520 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-realtime:    	  vdso:  34 nsec/call
  clock-getres-realtime:    	  vdso:  16 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-realtime-coarse:  vdso:  18 nsec/call
  clock-getres-realtime-coarse:   vdso: 517 nsec/call
  getcpu:    			  vdso:   8 nsec/call
  gettimeofday:    		  vdso:  25 nsec/call

And with the C VDSO:
  clock-gettime-monotonic:    	  vdso:  37 nsec/call
  clock-getres-monotonic:    	  vdso:  20 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-monotonic-coarse: vdso:  21 nsec/call
  clock-getres-monotonic-coarse:  vdso:  19 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-monotonic-raw:    vdso:  38 nsec/call
  clock-getres-monotonic-raw:     vdso:  20 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-realtime:    	  vdso:  37 nsec/call
  clock-getres-realtime:    	  vdso:  20 nsec/call
  clock-gettime-realtime-coarse:  vdso:  20 nsec/call
  clock-getres-realtime-coarse:   vdso:  19 nsec/call
  getcpu:    			  vdso:   8 nsec/call
  gettimeofday:    		  vdso:  28 nsec/call

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201126131006.2431205-8-mpe@ellerman.id.au
2020-12-04 01:01:10 +11:00
Michael Ellerman 4c62285439 Revert "powerpc/build: vdso linker warning for orphan sections"
This reverts commit f2af201002.

It added a usage of cc-ldoption, but cc-ldoption was removed in commit
055efab312 ("kbuild: drop support for cc-ldoption").

Reported-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2020-09-03 15:42:26 +10:00
Nicholas Piggin f2af201002 powerpc/build: vdso linker warning for orphan sections
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200303012748.4190929-1-npiggin@gmail.com
2020-07-29 21:09:37 +10:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman b24413180f License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Ian Munsie d72b080171 powerpc: Add ability to build little endian kernels
This patch allows the kbuild system to successfully compile a kernel
for the little endian PowerPC64 architecture. A subsequent patch
will add the CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN kernel config option which
must be set to build such a kernel.

If cross compiling, CROSS_COMPILE must point to a suitable toolchain
(compiled for the powerpc64le-linux and powerpcle-linux targets).

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-10-11 16:48:56 +11:00
Adhemerval Zanella fcb41a2030 powerpc: Add VDSO version of time
On 04/18/2013 07:38 PM, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> Since you are only reading one long you shouldn't need to check the
> update count and loop, you will always see a consistent value. The
> system call version of time() just does an unprotected load for example.

Fixed.

> With the above change and with Michael's comments covered (decent
> changelog entry and Signed-off-by):
>
> Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>

Thanks for the review, below the updated patch:

From: Adhemerval Zanella <azanella@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

This patch implement the time syscall as vDSO. The performance speedups
are:

Baseline PPC32: 380 nsec
Baseline PPC64: 350 nsec
vdso PPC32:      20 nsec
vsdo PPC64:      20 nsec

Tested on 64 bit build with both 32 bit and 64 bit userland.

Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Adhemerval Zanella <azanella@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-04-23 16:05:05 +10:00
Anton Blanchard 18ad51dd34 powerpc: Add VDSO version of getcpu
We have a request for a fast method of getting CPU and NUMA node IDs
from userspace. This patch implements a getcpu VDSO function,
similar to x86.

Ben suggested we use SPRG3 which is userspace readable. SPRG3 can be
modified by a KVM guest, so we save the SPRG3 value in the paca and
restore it when transitioning from the guest to the host.

I have a glibc patch that implements sched_getcpu on top of this.
Testing on a POWER7:

baseline: 538 cycles
vdso:      30 cycles

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2012-07-11 14:18:40 +10:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 7c03d653cd powerpc/mm: Introduce MMU features
We're soon running out of CPU features and I need to add some new
ones for various MMU related bits, so this patch separates the MMU
features from the CPU features.  I moved over the 32-bit MMU related
ones, added base features for MMU type families, but didn't move
over any 64-bit only feature yet.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-12-21 14:21:16 +11:00
Kumar Gala 2d1b202762 powerpc: Fixup lwsync at runtime
To allow for a single kernel image on e500 v1/v2/mc we need to fixup lwsync
at runtime.  On e500v1/v2 lwsync causes an illop so we need to patch up
the code.  We default to 'sync' since that is always safe and if the cpu
is capable we will replace 'sync' with 'lwsync'.

We introduce CPU_FTR_LWSYNC as a way to determine at runtime if this is
needed.  This flag could be moved elsewhere since we dont really use it
for the normal CPU_FTR purpose.

Finally we only store the relative offset in the fixup section to keep it
as small as possible rather than using a full fixup_entry.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-03 16:58:10 +10:00
Michael Ellerman fac23fe4be powerpc: Introduce infrastructure for feature sections with alternatives
The current feature section logic only supports nop'ing out code, this means
if you want to choose at runtime between instruction sequences, one or both
cases will have to execute the nop'ed out contents of the other section, eg:

BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
	or	1,1,1
END_FTR_SECTION_IFSET(FOO)
BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
	or	2,2,2
END_FTR_SECTION_IFCLR(FOO)

and the resulting code will be either,

	or	1,1,1
	nop

or,
	nop
	or	2,2,2

For small code segments this is fine, but for larger code blocks and in
performance criticial code segments, it would be nice to avoid the nops.
This commit starts to implement logic to allow the following:

BEGIN_FTR_SECTION
	or	1,1,1
FTR_SECTION_ELSE
	or	2,2,2
ALT_FTR_SECTION_END_IFSET(FOO)

and the resulting code will be:

	or	1,1,1
or,
	or	2,2,2

We achieve this by extending the existing FTR macros. The current feature
section semantic just becomes a special case, ie. if the else case is empty
we nop out the default case.

The key limitation is that the size of the else case must be less than or
equal to the size of the default case. If the else case is smaller the
remainder of the section is nop'ed.

We let the linker put the else case code in with the rest of the text,
so that relative branches from the else case are more likley to link,
this has the disadvantage that we can't free the unused else cases.

This commit introduces the required macro and linker script changes, but
does not enable the patching of the alternative sections.

We also need to update two hand-made section entries in reg.h and timex.h

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-07-01 11:28:28 +10:00
Roland McGrath 2ca7633dc7 [POWERPC] Tweak VDSO linker script to avoid upsetting old binutils
This works around bugs in older binutils' objcopy.
The placement of these sections does not really matter,
but it confused the buggy old BFD libraries.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-05-23 15:27:23 +10:00
Roland McGrath 558da7561e powerpc64 vDSO: linker script indentation
This cleans up the formatting in the vDSO linker script, mostly just the
use of whitespace.  It's intended to approximate the kernel standard
conventions for indenting C, treating elements of the linker script about
like initialized variable definitions.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 10:01:50 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 0909c8c2d5 [POWERPC] Support feature fixups in vdso's
This patch reworks the feature fixup mecanism so vdso's can be fixed up.
The main issue was that the construct:

        .long   label  (or .llong on 64 bits)

will not work in the case of a shared library like the vdso. It will
generate an empty placeholder in the fixup table along with a reloc,
which is not something we can deal with in the vdso.

The idea here (thanks Alan Modra !) is to instead use something like:

1:
        .long   label - 1b

That is, the feature fixup tables no longer contain addresses of bits of
code to patch, but offsets of such code from the fixup table entry
itself. That is properly resolved by ld when building the .so's. I've
modified the fixup mecanism generically to use that method for the rest
of the kernel as well.

Another trick is that the 32 bits vDSO included in the 64 bits kernel
need to have a table in the 64 bits format. However, gas does not
support 32 bits code with a statement of the form:

        .llong  label - 1b  (Or even just .llong label)

That is, it cannot emit the right fixup/relocation for the linker to use
to assign a 32 bits address to an .llong field. Thus, in the specific
case of the 32 bits vdso built as part of the 64 bits kernel, we are
using a modified macro that generates:

        .long   0xffffffff
        .llong  label - 1b

Note that is assumes that the value is negative which is enforced by
the .lds (those offsets are always negative as the .text is always
before the fixup table and gas doesn't support emiting the reloc the
other way around).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-10-25 11:54:07 +10:00
Roland McGrath 0b0bf7a3cc [PATCH] vDSO hash-style fix
The latest toolchains can produce a new ELF section in DSOs and
dynamically-linked executables.  The new section ".gnu.hash" replaces
".hash", and allows for more efficient runtime symbol lookups by the
dynamic linker.  The new ld option --hash-style={sysv|gnu|both} controls
whether to produce the old ".hash", the new ".gnu.hash", or both.  In some
new systems such as Fedora Core 6, gcc by default passes --hash-style=gnu
to the linker, so that a standard invocation of "gcc -shared" results in
producing a DSO with only ".gnu.hash".  The new ".gnu.hash" sections need
to be dealt with the same way as ".hash" sections in all respects; only the
dynamic linker cares about their contents.  To work with older dynamic
linkers (i.e.  preexisting releases of glibc), a binary must have the old
".hash" section.  The --hash-style=both option produces binaries that a new
dynamic linker can use more efficiently, but an old dynamic linker can
still handle.

The new section runs afoul of the custom linker scripts used to build vDSO
images for the kernel.  On ia64, the failure mode for this is a boot-time
panic because the vDSO's PT_IA_64_UNWIND segment winds up ill-formed.

This patch addresses the problem in two ways.

First, it mentions ".gnu.hash" in all the linker scripts alongside ".hash".
 This produces correct vDSO images with --hash-style=sysv (or old tools),
with --hash-style=gnu, or with --hash-style=both.

Second, it passes the --hash-style=sysv option when building the vDSO
images, so that ".gnu.hash" is not actually produced.  This is the most
conservative choice for compatibility with any old userland.  There is some
concern that some ancient glibc builds (though not any known old production
system) might choke on --hash-style=both binaries.  The optimizations
provided by the new style of hash section do not really matter for a DSO
with a tiny number of symbols, as the vDSO has.  If someone wants to use
=gnu or =both for their vDSO builds and worry less about that
compatibility, just change the option and the linker script changes will
make any choice work fine.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31 13:28:43 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt a7f290dad3 [PATCH] powerpc: Merge vdso's and add vdso support to 32 bits kernel
This patch moves the vdso's to arch/powerpc, adds support for the 32
bits vdso to the 32 bits kernel, rename systemcfg (finally !), and adds
some new (still untested) routines to both vdso's: clock_gettime() with
support for CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_MONOTONIC, clock_getres() (same
clocks) and get_tbfreq() for glibc to retreive the timebase frequency.

Tom,Steve: The implementation of get_tbfreq() I've done for 32 bits
returns a long long (r3, r4) not a long. This is such that if we ever
add support for >4Ghz timebases on ppc32, the userland interface won't
have to change.

I have tested gettimeofday() using some glibc patches in both ppc32 and
ppc64 kernels using 32 bits userland (I haven't had a chance to test a
64 bits userland yet, but the implementation didn't change and was
tested earlier). I haven't tested yet the new functions.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-11 22:25:39 +11:00