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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
To: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>,
	Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>, Adrian Reber <adrian@lisas.de>,
	Andrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>,
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	Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 28/37] x86/vdso: Enable static branches for the timens vdso
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 22:21:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrXL6pzDoHfn9Niw_CxNX-_W3=yotDYuqK+kxPhOLofmNA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190729215758.28405-29-dima@arista.com>

On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 2:58 PM Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com> wrote:
>
> From: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
>
> As it has been discussed on timens RFC, adding a new conditional branch
> `if (inside_time_ns)` on VDSO for all processes is undesirable.
>
> Addressing those problems, there are two versions of VDSO's .so:
> for host tasks (without any penalty) and for processes inside of time
> namespace with clk_to_ns() that subtracts offsets from host's time.
>
> The timens code in vdso looks like this:
>
> if (timens_static_branch_unlikely()) {
>        clk_to_ns(clk, ts);
> }

I'm confused.  Now we effectively have *three* versions: the vDSO
without timens, and vDSO with timens but with it switched off, and the
vDSO with timens on.  This seems like too much.

What you need is, IMO, a static-branch-ish thing that is per mm.  This
has a fundamental problem that the vDSO can be modified using
FOLL_FORCE.  Perhaps any CoW of the vDSO should implicitly switch the
static branch on, which at least gives some degree of correctness even
if it's a bit surprising.

--Andy

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-01  5:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-29 21:56 [PATCHv5 00/37] kernel: Introduce Time Namespace Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:56 ` [PATCHv5 01/37] ns: " Dmitry Safonov
2019-08-01  5:29   ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-08-01 23:46     ` Dmitry Safonov
2019-08-07  0:24   ` [PATCHv6 " Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:56 ` [PATCHv5 02/37] timens: Add timens_offsets Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:56 ` [PATCHv5 03/37] posix-clocks: Rename the clock_get() into clock_get_timespec() Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:56 ` [PATCHv5 04/37] posix-clocks: Rename *_clock_get() functions into *_clock_get_timespec() Dmitry Safonov
2019-08-07  6:01   ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-29 21:56 ` [PATCHv5 05/37] alarmtimer: Rename gettime() callback to get_ktime() Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:56 ` [PATCHv5 06/37] alarmtimer: Provide get_timespec() callback Dmitry Safonov
2019-08-07  6:04   ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-08-08  6:18     ` Andrei Vagin
2019-07-29 21:56 ` [PATCHv5 07/37] posix-clocks: Introduce clock_get_ktime() callback Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:56 ` [PATCHv5 08/37] posix-timers: Use clock_get_ktime() in common_timer_get() Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:56 ` [PATCHv5 09/37] posix-clocks: Introduce CLOCK_MONOTONIC time namespace offsets Dmitry Safonov
2019-08-07  6:07   ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-29 21:56 ` [PATCHv5 10/37] posix-clocks: Introduce CLOCK_BOOTTIME time namespace offset Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:56 ` [PATCHv5 11/37] kernel: Add do_timens_ktime_to_host() helper Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:56 ` [PATCHv5 12/37] timerfd: Make timerfd_settime() time namespace aware Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:56 ` [PATCHv5 13/37] posix-timers: Make timer_settime() " Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:56 ` [PATCHv5 14/37] alarmtimer: Make nanosleep " Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:56 ` [PATCHv5 15/37] hrtimers: Prepare hrtimer_nanosleep() for time namespaces Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:56 ` [PATCHv5 16/37] posix-timers: Make clock_nanosleep() time namespace aware Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:56 ` [PATCHv5 17/37] fd/proc: Respect boottime inside time namespace for /proc/uptime Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 18/37] x86/vdso2c: Correct err messages on file opening Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 19/37] x86/vdso2c: Convert iterator to unsigned Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 20/37] x86/vdso/Makefile: Add vobjs32 Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 21/37] x86/vdso: Restrict splitting VVAR VMA Dmitry Safonov
2019-08-01  5:23   ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 22/37] x86/vdso: Rename vdso_image {.data=>.text} Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 23/37] x86/vdso: Add offsets page in vvar Dmitry Safonov
2019-08-01  5:22   ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 24/37] x86/vdso: Allocate timens vdso Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 25/37] x86/vdso: Switch image on setns()/clone() Dmitry Safonov
2019-08-01  5:34   ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-08-01  6:09     ` hpa
2019-08-01 21:39       ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-08-07  0:27   ` [PATCHv6 " Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 26/37] vdso: Introduce vdso_static_branch_unlikely() Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 27/37] x86/vdso2c: Process jump tables Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 28/37] x86/vdso: Enable static branches for the timens vdso Dmitry Safonov
2019-08-01  5:21   ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2019-08-01  6:48     ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 29/37] posix-clocks: Add align for timens_offsets Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 30/37] fs/proc: Introduce /proc/pid/timens_offsets Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 31/37] selftest/timens: Add Time Namespace test for supported clocks Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 32/37] selftest/timens: Add a test for timerfd Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 33/37] selftest/timens: Add a test for clock_nanosleep() Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 34/37] selftest/timens: Add procfs selftest Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 35/37] selftest/timens: Add timer offsets test Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 36/37] selftests/timens: Add a simple perf test for clock_gettime() Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 37/37] selftest/timens: Check that a right vdso is mapped after fork and exec Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 00/37] kernel: Introduce Time Namespace Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 22:07   ` Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 01/37] ns: " Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 02/37] timens: Add timens_offsets Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 03/37] posix-clocks: Rename the clock_get() into clock_get_timespec() Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 04/37] posix-clocks: Rename *_clock_get() functions into *_clock_get_timespec() Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 05/37] alarmtimer: Rename gettime() callback to get_ktime() Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 06/37] alarmtimer: Provide get_timespec() callback Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 07/37] posix-clocks: Introduce clock_get_ktime() callback Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 08/37] posix-timers: Use clock_get_ktime() in common_timer_get() Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 09/37] posix-clocks: Introduce CLOCK_MONOTONIC time namespace offsets Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 10/37] posix-clocks: Introduce CLOCK_BOOTTIME time namespace offset Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 11/37] kernel: Add do_timens_ktime_to_host() helper Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 12/37] timerfd: Make timerfd_settime() time namespace aware Dmitry Safonov
2019-07-29 21:57 ` [PATCHv5 13/37] posix-timers: Make timer_settime() " Dmitry Safonov

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