Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Dec 2018 10:22:39 -0800 | From | Sean Christopherson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/vdso: Remove obsolete "fake section table" reservation |
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On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 08:17:40AM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote: > At one point the vDSO image was manually stripped down by vdso2c in an > attempt to minimize the size of the image mapped into userspace. Part > of that stripping process involved building a fake section table so as > not to break userspace processes that parse the section table. Memory > for the fake section table was reserved in the .rodata section so that > vdso2c could simply copy the entire PT_LOAD segment into the userspace > image after building the fake table. > > Eventually, the entire fake section table approach was dropped in favor > of stripping the vdso "the old fashioned way", i.e. via objdump -S. > But, the reservation in .rodata for the fake table was left behind. > Remove the reserveration along with a few other related defines and > section entries. > > Removing the fake section table placeholder zaps a whopping 0x340 bytes > from the 64-bit vDSO image, which drops the current image's size to > under 4k, i.e. reduces the effective size of the userspace vDSO mapping > by a full page. > > Fixes: da861e18eccc ("x86, vdso: Get rid of the fake section mechanism") > Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> > Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> > --- > diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso2c.c b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso2c.c > index 4674f58581a1..2479a454b15c 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso2c.c > +++ b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso2c.c > @@ -98,12 +98,6 @@ struct vdso_sym required_syms[] = { > [sym_hpet_page] = {"hpet_page", true}, > [sym_pvclock_page] = {"pvclock_page", true}, > [sym_hvclock_page] = {"hvclock_page", true}, > - [sym_VDSO_FAKE_SECTION_TABLE_START] = { > - "VDSO_FAKE_SECTION_TABLE_START", false > - }, > - [sym_VDSO_FAKE_SECTION_TABLE_END] = { > - "VDSO_FAKE_SECTION_TABLE_END", false > - },
Doh, I missed removing the definitions for sym_VDSO_FAKE_SECTION_TABLE_*.
> {"VDSO32_NOTE_MASK", true}, > {"__kernel_vsyscall", true}, > {"__kernel_sigreturn", true}, > -- > 2.19.2 >
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