Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 0/6] Collected vdso/vsyscall fixes for 3.1

From: Sander Eikelenboom
Date: Wed Aug 03 2011 - 13:34:47 EST


Hello Andy,

Wednesday, August 3, 2011, 3:31:48 PM, you wrote:

> This fixes various problems that cropped up with the vdso patches.

> - Patch 1 fixes an information leak to userspace.
> - Patches 2 and 3 fix the kernel build on gold.
> - Patches 4 and 5 fix Xen (I hope).
> - Patch 6 (optional) adds a trace event to vsyscall emulation. It will
> make it easier to handle performance regression reports :)

> [1] https://gitorious.org/linux-test-utils/linux-clock-tests

> Changes from v1:
> - Improve changelog message for "x86-64/xen: Enable the vvar mapping"
> - Fix 32-bit build.
> - Add patch 6.

> Andy Lutomirski (6):
> x86-64: Pad vDSO to a page boundary
> x86-64: Move the "user" vsyscall segment out of the data segment.
> x86-64: Work around gold bug 13023
> x86-64/xen: Enable the vvar mapping
> x86-64: Add user_64bit_mode paravirt op
> x86-64: Add vsyscall:emulate_vsyscall trace event

> arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h | 4 +-
> arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h | 6 ++++
> arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h | 19 +++++++++++++
> arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c | 4 +++
> arch/x86/kernel/step.c | 2 +-
> arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 46 ++++++++++++++++++---------------
> arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c | 12 +++++---
> arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_trace.h | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 2 +-
> arch/x86/vdso/vdso.S | 1 +
> arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 4 +++
> arch/x86/xen/mmu.c | 4 ++-
> 12 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_trace.h

Compile and boot tested on Xen 4.1.1 and baremetal on x86_64, it fixes my boot panic under Xen.

Tested-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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