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SubjectRe: [PATCH 7/8] Add 32 bit VDSO time support for 32 bit kernel
On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 02.02.2014, 08:46 -0800 schrieb Andy Lutomirski:
>> On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 3:27 AM, <stefani@seibold.net> wrote:
>> > From: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
>> >
>> > This patch add the time support for 32 bit a VDSO to a 32 bit kernel.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Can you address the review comments from last time around? For
>> example, this still seems to have redundant vvar and hpet mappings, it
>> doesn't use the VVAR macro, it moves the 32-bit compat vDSO, etc.
>>
>
> I will address the compat VDSO issue.
>
> But the VVAR macro will be not a part of this patch set. If you depend
> on this, feel free to create one. From my point of view this is not
> feasible without a macro hacking, because the address accessing the vvar
> area differs in kernel and VDSO user mode.

Sorry, but "I will make the code messier for no apparent reason and I
will not offer to fix it in the same series" gets my NAK.

Hint: I'm talking about two or three lines of code in vvar.h.

>
> I also see no redundant mapping. There are two modes, one is the map of
> the kernel area the other maps the VDSO into the user space area. This
> is exactly the behaviour of the origin VDSO implementation.

No.

In your series there are *three* mappings. There are:

- The linear mapping that the kernel loader sets up (the writable
mapping used in the kernel). This is implicit and, of course, fine.
- There's the fixmap page, which aliases the normal kernel mapping at
a fixed address with the user, ro, and nx attributes. The 64-bit vDSO
uses that mapping. See vdso.h -- it's all arranged pretty clearly.
Your code, for no discernible reason, sets up a fixmap entry on
*32-bit* kernels.
- The vma that you're setting up adjacent to the actual vdso text.
This is what you are using.

Please choose *one* user-readable mapping for the 32-bit vdso and
stick with it. If the 64-bit vdso can use it to and userspace doesn't
break, even better. But a pointless set of extra fixmap entries is
not okay.

hpa's right about the symbol versions, BTW -- those are ABI and will
probably break (at least) every new-enough Go binary.

--Andy


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