Re: [PATCH RESEND v3 0/6] arm64: add the time namespace support

[Dmitry Safonov]

Hi Andrei,

On 6/2/20 7:02 PM, Andrei Vagin wrote:
> Allocate the time namespace page among VVAR pages and add the logic
> to handle faults on VVAR properly.
> 
> If a task belongs to a time namespace then the VVAR page which contains
> the system wide VDSO data is replaced with a namespace specific page
> which has the same layout as the VVAR page. That page has vdso_data->seq
> set to 1 to enforce the slow path and vdso_data->clock_mode set to
> VCLOCK_TIMENS to enforce the time namespace handling path.
> 
> The extra check in the case that vdso_data->seq is odd, e.g. a concurrent
> update of the VDSO data is in progress, is not really affecting regular
> tasks which are not part of a time namespace as the task is spin waiting
> for the update to finish and vdso_data->seq to become even again.
> 
> If a time namespace task hits that code path, it invokes the corresponding
> time getter function which retrieves the real VVAR page, reads host time
> and then adds the offset for the requested clock which is stored in the
> special VVAR page.
> 
> v2: Code cleanups suggested by Vincenzo.
> v3: add a comment in __arch_get_timens_vdso_data.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dmitry Safonov <dima@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> v3 on github (if someone prefers `git pull` to `git am`):
> https://github.com/avagin/linux-task-diag/tree/arm64/timens-v3

Thanks for adding arm64 support, I've looked through patches and don't
see any major problems.

Reviewed-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@xxxxxxxxxx>

> 
> Andrei Vagin (6):
>   arm64/vdso: use the fault callback to map vvar pages
>   arm64/vdso: Zap vvar pages when switching to a time namespace
>   arm64/vdso: Add time napespace page
>   arm64/vdso: Handle faults on timens page
>   arm64/vdso: Restrict splitting VVAR VMA
>   arm64: enable time namespace support
> 
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig                            |   1 +
>  .../include/asm/vdso/compat_gettimeofday.h    |  11 ++
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h    |   8 ++
>  arch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c                      | 134 ++++++++++++++++--
>  arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S             |   3 +-
>  arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/vdso.lds.S           |   3 +-
>  include/vdso/datapage.h                       |   1 +
>  7 files changed, 147 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 

Thanks,
          Dmitry