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-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