The kernel provided vdso functions do not get a stack frame from the
calling function and therefore may not change the stack contents, unless
they allocate space on their own.
This problem was exposed with 070b7be633 "s390/vdso: replace stck with
stcke" which writes 16 bytes instead of 8 bytes into the stack frame. These
additional 8 bytes however were indeed used by the caller (glibc) to save
data and therefore this data was corrupted by the vdso code.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Add CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE and CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE optimization to
the 64-bit and 31-bit vdso.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
If gettimeofday / clock_gettime are called multiple times in a row
the STCK instruction will stall until a difference in the result is
visible. This unnecessarily slows down the vdso calls, use stcke
instead of stck to get rid of the stall.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The explicit NULL pointer check on the timespec argument is only
required for clock_getres but not for clock_gettime.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
With git commit 79c74ecbeb
"s390/time,vdso: convert to the new update_vsyscall interface"
the new update_vsyscall function already does the sum of xtime
and wall_to_monotonic. The old update_vsyscall function only
copied the wall_to_monotonic offset. The vdso code needs to be
modified to take this into consideration.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The code to use the ECTG instruction to calculate the cputime for the
current thread is currently used only for the per-thread CPU-clock
with the clockid -2 (PID=0, VIRT=1). Use the same code for the clockid
CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID to speed up the more common clockid as well.
Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Switch to the improved update_vsyscall interface that provides
sub-nanosecond precision for gettimeofday and clock_gettime.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The concepts of VDSO and gcov-based profiling don't mix: the former
includes kernel-provided code running in userspace, the latter adds
instructions that modify counters in kernel data segments. On s390
this has not been a problem so far due to VDSO code being written in
all-assembler which is exempt from gcov-based profiling. This could
change in the future, so disable profiling excplicitly for VDSO code.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The CLOCK_* defines in asm-offsets.c are only used for the vdso code
however in the meantime they cause other trouble.
Just rename them to get permanently rid of this:
In file included from /home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/asm-offsets.h:1:0,
from arch/s390/mm/fault.c:33:
include/generated/asm-offsets.h:53:0: warning: "CLOCK_REALTIME" redefined
include/linux/time.h:286:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
include/generated/asm-offsets.h:54:0: warning: "CLOCK_MONOTONIC" redefined
include/linux/time.h:287:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Commit "timekeeping: Fix clock_gettime vsyscall time warp" (0696b711e)
introduced the new parameter "mult" to update_vsyscall(). This parameter
contains the internal NTP adjusted clock multiplier.
The s390x vdso did not use this adjusted multiplier. Instead, it used
the constant clock multiplier for gettimeofday() and clock_gettime()
variants. This may result in observable time warps as explained in
commit 0696b711e.
Make the NTP adjusted clock multiplier available to the s390x vdso
implementation and use it for time calculations.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
This patch changes the remaining direct references to
.data.page_aligned in C and assembly code to use the macros in
include/linux/linkage.h.
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
ld-option is misnamed as it test options to gcc, not to ld.
Renamed it to reflect this.
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
The combination of noexec=on and a clock_gettime call with clock id
CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID is broken. The vdso code switches to the
access register mode to get access to the per-cpu data structure to
execute the magic ectg instruction. After the ectg instruction the
code always switches back to the primary mode but for noexec=on the
correct mode is the secondary mode. The effect of the bug is that the
user space program looses the access to all mappings without PROT_EXEC,
e.g. the stack. The problem is fixed by restoring the mode that has
been active before the switch to the access register mode.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The extract cpu time instruction (ectg) instruction allows the user
process to get the current thread cputime without calling into the
kernel. The code that uses the instruction needs to switch to the
access registers mode to get access to the per-cpu info page that
contains the two base values that are needed to calculate the current
cputime from the CPU timer with the ectg instruction.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Add a vdso to speed up gettimeofday and clock_getres/clock_gettime for
CLOCK_REALTIME/CLOCK_MONOTONIC.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Heiko Carstens