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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86,mm: Improve _install_special_mapping and fix x86 vdso naming
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 22:01:04 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140520180104.GL2185@moon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrUARCP0eNj5e3Kh81KDXg5AFLnoNoDHeoZcBXi9z-5F3w@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:52:51AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> >
> >   We use not only [vdso] mark to detect vdso area but also page frame
> > number of the living vdso. If mark is not present in procfs output
> > we examinate executable areas and check if pfn == vdso_pfn, it's
> > a slow path because there migh be a bunch of executable areas and
> > touching every of it is not that fast thing, but we simply have no
> > choise.
> 
> This patch should fix this issue, at least.  If there's still a way to
> get a native vdso that doesn't say "[vdso]", please let me know/

Yes, having a native procfs way to detect vdso is much preferred!

> >   The situation get worse when task was dumped on one kernel and
> > then restored on another kernel where vdso content is different
> > from one save in image -- is such case as I mentioned we need
> > that named vdso proxy which redirect calls to vdso of the system
> > where task is restoring. And when such "restored" task get checkpointed
> > second time we don't dump new living vdso but save only old vdso
> > proxy on disk (detecting it is a different story, in short we
> > inject a unique mark into elf header).
> 
> Yuck.  But I don't know whether the kernel can help much here.

Some prctl which would tell kernel to put vdso at specifed address.
We can live without it for now so not a big deal (yet ;)

> >> I suspect that you'll need kernel changes for compat tasks, since I
> >> think that mremapping the vdso on any reasonably modern hardware in a
> >> 32-bit task will cause sigreturn to blow up.  This could be fixed by
> >> making mremap magical, although adding a new prctl or arch_prctl to
> >> reliably move the vdso might be a better bet.
> >
> > Well, as far as I understand compat code uses abs addressing for
> > vvar data and if vvar data position doesn't change we're safe,
> > but same time because vvar addresses are not abi I fear one day
> > we indeed hit the problems and the only solution would be
> > to use kernel's help. But again, Andy, I didn't think much
> > about implementing compat mode in criu yet so i might be
> > missing some details.
> 
> Prior to 3.15, the compat code didn't have vvar data at all.  In 3.15
> and up, the vvar data is accessed using PC-relative addressing, even
> in compat mode (using the usual call; mov trick to read EIP).

i see. I'll ping you for help once I start implementing compat mode ;)

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-20 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-19 22:58 [PATCH 0/4] x86,mm: vdso fixes for an OOPS and /proc/PID/maps Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-19 22:58 ` [PATCH 1/4] x86,vdso: Fix an OOPS accessing the hpet mapping w/o an hpet Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-19 22:58 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm,fs: Add vm_ops->name as an alternative to arch_vma_name Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-19 22:58 ` [PATCH 3/4] x86,mm: Improve _install_special_mapping and fix x86 vdso naming Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-20 17:21   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2014-05-20 17:24     ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-20 17:47       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2014-05-20 17:52         ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-20 18:01           ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2014-05-20 18:18             ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-20 18:24               ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-20 18:27                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-20 18:38                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-05-20 18:39                 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2014-05-20 18:37   ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-05-19 22:58 ` [PATCH 4/4] x86,mm: Replace arch_vma_name with vm_ops->name for vsyscalls Andy Lutomirski

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