- Consolidate the VDSO storage
The VDSO data storage and data layout has been largely architecture
specific for historical reasons. That increases the maintenance effort
and causes inconsistencies over and over.
There is no real technical reason for architecture specific layouts and
implementations. The architecture specific details can easily be
integrated into a generic layout, which also reduces the amount of
duplicated code for managing the mappings.
Convert all architectures over to a unified layout and common mapping
infrastructure. This splits the VDSO data layout into subsystem
specific blocks, timekeeping, random and architecture parts, which
provides a better structure and allows to improve and update the
functionalities without conflict and interaction.
- Rework the timekeeping data storage
The current implementation is designed for exposing system timekeeping
accessors, which was good enough at the time when it was designed.
PTP and Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) change that as there are
requirements to expose independent PTP clocks, which are not related to
system timekeeping.
Replace the monolithic data storage by a structured layout, which
allows to add support for independent PTP clocks on top while reusing
both the data structures and the time accessor implementations.
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Merge tag 'timers-vdso-2025-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull VDSO infrastructure updates from Thomas Gleixner:
- Consolidate the VDSO storage
The VDSO data storage and data layout has been largely architecture
specific for historical reasons. That increases the maintenance
effort and causes inconsistencies over and over.
There is no real technical reason for architecture specific layouts
and implementations. The architecture specific details can easily be
integrated into a generic layout, which also reduces the amount of
duplicated code for managing the mappings.
Convert all architectures over to a unified layout and common mapping
infrastructure. This splits the VDSO data layout into subsystem
specific blocks, timekeeping, random and architecture parts, which
provides a better structure and allows to improve and update the
functionalities without conflict and interaction.
- Rework the timekeeping data storage
The current implementation is designed for exposing system
timekeeping accessors, which was good enough at the time when it was
designed.
PTP and Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) change that as there are
requirements to expose independent PTP clocks, which are not related
to system timekeeping.
Replace the monolithic data storage by a structured layout, which
allows to add support for independent PTP clocks on top while reusing
both the data structures and the time accessor implementations.
* tag 'timers-vdso-2025-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (55 commits)
sparc/vdso: Always reject undefined references during linking
x86/vdso: Always reject undefined references during linking
vdso: Rework struct vdso_time_data and introduce struct vdso_clock
vdso: Move architecture related data before basetime data
powerpc/vdso: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
arm64/vdso: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
x86/vdso: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
time/namespace: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/namespace: Rename timens_setup_vdso_data() to reflect new vdso_clock struct
vdso/vsyscall: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare helper functions for introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_coarse_timens() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_coarse() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_hres_timens() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_hres() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/helpers: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/datapage: Define vdso_clock to prepare for multiple PTP clocks
vdso: Make vdso_time_data cacheline aligned
arm64: Make asm/cache.h compatible with vDSO
...
The generic storage implementation provides the same features as the
custom one. However it can be shared between architectures, making
maintenance easier.
This switch also moves the random state data out of the time data page.
The currently used hardcoded __VDSO_RND_DATA_OFFSET does not take into
account changes to the time data page layout.
Co-developed-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250204-vdso-store-rng-v3-8-13a4669dfc8c@linutronix.de
A recent LLVM commit [1] started generating an .ARM.attributes section
similar to the one that exists for 32-bit, which results in orphan
section warnings (or errors if CONFIG_WERROR is enabled) from the linker
because it is not handled in the arm64 linker scripts.
ld.lld: error: arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vgettimeofday.o:(.ARM.attributes) is being placed in '.ARM.attributes'
ld.lld: error: arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vgetrandom.o:(.ARM.attributes) is being placed in '.ARM.attributes'
ld.lld: error: vmlinux.a(lib/vsprintf.o):(.ARM.attributes) is being placed in '.ARM.attributes'
ld.lld: error: vmlinux.a(lib/win_minmax.o):(.ARM.attributes) is being placed in '.ARM.attributes'
ld.lld: error: vmlinux.a(lib/xarray.o):(.ARM.attributes) is being placed in '.ARM.attributes'
Discard the new sections in the necessary linker scripts to resolve the
warnings, as the kernel and vDSO do not need to retain it, similar to
the .note.gnu.property section.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: b3e5d80d0c ("arm64/build: Warn on orphan section placement")
Link: ee99c4d484 [1]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250206-arm64-handle-arm-attributes-in-linker-script-v3-1-d53d169913eb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
This constant is always "0", providing no value and making the logic
harder to understand.
Also prepare for a consolidation of the vdso linkerscript logic by
aligning it with other architectures.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241010-vdso-generic-base-v1-4-b64f0842d512@linutronix.de
Hook up the generic vDSO implementation to the aarch64 vDSO data page.
The _vdso_rng_data required data is placed within the _vdso_data vvar
page, by using a offset larger than the vdso_data.
The vDSO function requires a ChaCha20 implementation that does not write
to the stack, and that can do an entire ChaCha20 permutation. The one
provided uses NEON on the permute operation, with a fallback to the
syscall for chips that do not support AdvSIMD.
This also passes the vdso_test_chacha test along with
vdso_test_getrandom. The vdso_test_getrandom bench-single result on
Neoverse-N1 shows:
vdso: 25000000 times in 0.783884250 seconds
libc: 25000000 times in 8.780275399 seconds
syscall: 25000000 times in 8.786581518 seconds
A small fixup to arch/arm64/include/asm/mman.h was required to avoid
pulling kernel code into the vDSO, similar to what's already done in
arch/arm64/include/asm/rwonce.h.
Signed-off-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
The two symbols __alt_instructions and __alt_instructions_end are not
used, since the vDSO patching code looks for the '.altinstructions' ELF
section directly.
Remove the unused linker symbols.
Fixes: 4e3bca8f7c ("arm64: alternative: patch alternatives in the vDSO")
Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230726173619.3732-1-jszhang@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Make it possible to use alternatives in the vDSO, so that better
implementations can be used if possible.
Signed-off-by: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220830104833.34636-3-joey.gouly@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Use macros from vmlinux.lds.h to explicitly name sections that are included
in the VDSO output.
Signed-off-by: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220510095834.32394-2-joey.gouly@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
The arm64 assembler in binutils 2.32 and above generates a program
property note in a note section, .note.gnu.property, to encode used x86
ISAs and features. But the kernel linker script only contains a single
NOTE segment:
PHDRS
{
text PT_LOAD FLAGS(5) FILEHDR PHDRS; /* PF_R|PF_X */
dynamic PT_DYNAMIC FLAGS(4); /* PF_R */
note PT_NOTE FLAGS(4); /* PF_R */
}
The NOTE segment generated by the vDSO linker script is aligned to 4 bytes.
But the .note.gnu.property section must be aligned to 8 bytes on arm64.
$ readelf -n vdso64.so
Displaying notes found in: .note
Owner Data size Description
Linux 0x00000004 Unknown note type: (0x00000000)
description data: 06 00 00 00
readelf: Warning: note with invalid namesz and/or descsz found at offset 0x20
readelf: Warning: type: 0x78, namesize: 0x00000100, descsize: 0x756e694c, alignment: 8
Since the note.gnu.property section in the vDSO is not checked by the
dynamic linker, discard the .note.gnu.property sections in the vDSO.
Similar to commit 4caffe6a28 ("x86/vdso: Discard .note.gnu.property
sections in vDSO"), but for arm64.
Signed-off-by: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210423205159.830854-1-morbo@google.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Currently with ld.lld we emit an empty .eh_frame_hdr section (and a
corresponding program header) into the vDSO. With ld.bfd the section
is not emitted but the program header is, with p_vaddr set to 0. This
can lead to unwinders attempting to interpret the data at whichever
location the program header happens to point to as an unwind info
header. This happens to be mostly harmless as long as the byte at
that location (interpreted as a version number) has a value other
than 1, causing both libgcc and LLVM libunwind to ignore the section
(in libunwind's case, after printing an error message to stderr),
but it could lead to worse problems if the byte happened to be 1 or
the program header points to non-readable memory (e.g. if the empty
section was placed at a page boundary).
Instead of disabling .eh_frame_hdr via --no-eh-frame-hdr (which
also has the downside of being unsupported by older versions of GNU
binutils), disable it by discarding the section, and stop emitting
the program header that points to it.
I understand that we intend to emit valid unwind info for the vDSO
at some point. Once that happens this patch can be reverted.
Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Link: https://linux-review.googlesource.com/id/If745fd9cadcb31b4010acbf5693727fe111b0863
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201230221954.2007257-1-pcc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Allocate the time namespace page among VVAR pages. Provide
__arch_get_timens_vdso_data() helper for VDSO code to get the
code-relative position of VVARs on that special page.
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.
The time-namespace page isn't allocated on !CONFIG_TIME_NAMESPACE, but
vma is the same size, which simplifies criu/vdso migration between
different kernel configs.
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200624083321.144975-4-avagin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):
this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
published by the free software foundation this program is
distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any
warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license
for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general
public license along with this program if not see http www gnu org
licenses
extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier
GPL-2.0-only
has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 503 file(s).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras <alexios.zavras@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt <info@metux.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190602204653.811534538@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Andy pointed out that binutils generates additional sections in the vdso
image (e.g. section string table) which, if our .text section gets big
enough, could cross a page boundary and end up screwing up the location
where the kernel expects to put the data page.
This patch solves the issue in the same manner as x86_32, by moving the
data page before the code pages.
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
This patch adds VDSO support for 64-bit applications. The VDSO code is
currently used for sys_rt_sigreturn() and optimised gettimeofday()
(using the user-accessible generic counter).
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
