From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>,
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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86,mm: Improve _install_special_mapping and fix x86 vdso naming
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 11:18:21 -0700
Message-ID: <537B9C6D.7010705@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140520180104.GL2185@moon>
On 05/20/2014 11:01 AM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>>
>> 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!
>
Is there any path by which we can end up with [vdso] without a leading
slash in /proc/self/maps? Otherwise, why is that not "native"?
>>> 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 ;)
mremap() will do this for you.
-hpa
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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
2014-05-20 18:18 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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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