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authorRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>2007-07-20 00:31:43 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-20 08:44:19 -0700
commitd2eea68e7db759ce67807b42b7407236cccfde71 (patch)
tree41521fcbce645a492c83e45b4b73be829a4cc8b1 /arch
parent5ac12c6fe1b5fbda0d0caedb8214cde545a5737c (diff)
xen: disable vdso "nosegneg" on native boot
One of the nice ideas behind paravirt is that CONFIG_XEN=y can be included in a standard configuration and be no worse for native booting than as a Xen guest. The glibc feature that supports the vDSO "nosegneg" note is designed specifically to make this easy. You just have to flip one bit at boot time. This patch makes Xen flip the bit, so a CONFIG_XEN=y kernel on bare hardware does not make glibc use the less-optimized library builds. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/boot/compressed/relocs.c1
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S15
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/xen/setup.c15
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/xen/vdso.h4
4 files changed, 29 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/boot/compressed/relocs.c b/arch/i386/boot/compressed/relocs.c
index b0e21c3cee5..2d77ee728f9 100644
--- a/arch/i386/boot/compressed/relocs.c
+++ b/arch/i386/boot/compressed/relocs.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ static const char* safe_abs_relocs[] = {
"__kernel_rt_sigreturn",
"__kernel_sigreturn",
"SYSENTER_RETURN",
+ "VDSO_NOTE_MASK",
"xen_irq_disable_direct_reloc",
"xen_save_fl_direct_reloc",
};
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S b/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S
index 271f16a8ca0..07c0daf7823 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ ELFNOTE_START(Linux, 0, "a")
ELFNOTE_END
#ifdef CONFIG_XEN
-
/*
* Add a special note telling glibc's dynamic linker a fake hardware
* flavor that it will use to choose the search path for libraries in the
@@ -28,15 +27,19 @@ ELFNOTE_END
* It should contain:
* hwcap 1 nosegneg
* to match the mapping of bit to name that we give here.
+ *
+ * At runtime, the fake hardware feature will be considered to be present
+ * if its bit is set in the mask word. So, we start with the mask 0, and
+ * at boot time we set VDSO_NOTE_NONEGSEG_BIT if running under Xen.
*/
-/* Bit used for the pseudo-hwcap for non-negative segments. We use
- bit 1 to avoid bugs in some versions of glibc when bit 0 is
- used; the choice is otherwise arbitrary. */
-#define VDSO_NOTE_NONEGSEG_BIT 1
+#include "../xen/vdso.h" /* Defines VDSO_NOTE_NONEGSEG_BIT. */
+ .globl VDSO_NOTE_MASK
ELFNOTE_START(GNU, 2, "a")
- .long 1, 1<<VDSO_NOTE_NONEGSEG_BIT /* ncaps, mask */
+ .long 1 /* ncaps */
+VDSO_NOTE_MASK:
+ .long 0 /* mask */
.byte VDSO_NOTE_NONEGSEG_BIT; .asciz "nosegneg" /* bit, name */
ELFNOTE_END
#endif
diff --git a/arch/i386/xen/setup.c b/arch/i386/xen/setup.c
index 2fe6eac510f..f84e7722664 100644
--- a/arch/i386/xen/setup.c
+++ b/arch/i386/xen/setup.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
#include <xen/features.h>
#include "xen-ops.h"
+#include "vdso.h"
/* These are code, but not functions. Defined in entry.S */
extern const char xen_hypervisor_callback[];
@@ -55,6 +56,18 @@ static void xen_idle(void)
}
}
+/*
+ * Set the bit indicating "nosegneg" library variants should be used.
+ */
+static void fiddle_vdso(void)
+{
+ extern u32 VDSO_NOTE_MASK; /* See ../kernel/vsyscall-note.S. */
+ extern char vsyscall_int80_start;
+ u32 *mask = (u32 *) ((unsigned long) &VDSO_NOTE_MASK - VDSO_PRELINK +
+ &vsyscall_int80_start);
+ *mask |= 1 << VDSO_NOTE_NONEGSEG_BIT;
+}
+
void __init xen_arch_setup(void)
{
struct physdev_set_iopl set_iopl;
@@ -93,4 +106,6 @@ void __init xen_arch_setup(void)
#endif
paravirt_disable_iospace();
+
+ fiddle_vdso();
}
diff --git a/arch/i386/xen/vdso.h b/arch/i386/xen/vdso.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..861fedfe523
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/i386/xen/vdso.h
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+/* Bit used for the pseudo-hwcap for non-negative segments. We use
+ bit 1 to avoid bugs in some versions of glibc when bit 0 is
+ used; the choice is otherwise arbitrary. */
+#define VDSO_NOTE_NONEGSEG_BIT 1