This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

x86/vdso: Get pvclock data from the vvar VMA instead of the fixmap

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: x86-vdso-get-pvclock-data-from-the-vvar-vma-instead-of-the-fixmap.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From dac16fba6fc590fa7239676b35ed75dae4c4cd2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 19:20:20 -0800 Subject: x86/vdso: Get pvclock data from the vvar VMA instead of the fixmap

From: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org

commit dac16fba6fc590fa7239676b35ed75dae4c4cd2b upstream.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini pbonzini@redhat.com Cc: Andy Lutomirski luto@amacapital.net Cc: Borislav Petkov bp@alien8.de Cc: Brian Gerst brgerst@gmail.com Cc: Denys Vlasenko dvlasenk@redhat.com Cc: H. Peter Anvin hpa@zytor.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9d37826fdc7e2d2809efe31d5345f97186859284.1449702533... Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Cc: Jamie Iles jamie.iles@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c | 20 ++++++++------------ arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S | 3 ++- arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso2c.c | 3 +++ arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c | 13 +++++++++++++ arch/x86/include/asm/pvclock.h | 9 +++++++++ arch/x86/include/asm/vdso.h | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c | 5 +++++ 7 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c +++ b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c @@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ static notrace cycle_t vread_hpet(void) } #endif

+#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT_CLOCK +extern u8 pvclock_page + __attribute__((visibility("hidden"))); +#endif + #ifndef BUILD_VDSO32

#include <linux/kernel.h> @@ -62,23 +67,14 @@ notrace static long vdso_fallback_gtod(s

#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT_CLOCK

-static notrace const struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info *get_pvti(int cpu) +static notrace const struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info *get_pvti0(void) { - const struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info *pvti_base; - int idx = cpu / (PAGE_SIZE/PVTI_SIZE); - int offset = cpu % (PAGE_SIZE/PVTI_SIZE); - - BUG_ON(PVCLOCK_FIXMAP_BEGIN + idx > PVCLOCK_FIXMAP_END); - - pvti_base = (struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info *) - __fix_to_virt(PVCLOCK_FIXMAP_BEGIN+idx); - - return &pvti_base[offset]; + return (const struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info *)&pvclock_page; }

static notrace cycle_t vread_pvclock(int *mode) { - const struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *pvti = &get_pvti(0)->pvti; + const struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *pvti = &get_pvti0()->pvti; cycle_t ret; u64 tsc, pvti_tsc; u64 last, delta, pvti_system_time; --- a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ SECTIONS * segment. */

- vvar_start = . - 2 * PAGE_SIZE; + vvar_start = . - 3 * PAGE_SIZE; vvar_page = vvar_start;

/* Place all vvars at the offsets in asm/vvar.h. */ @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ SECTIONS #undef EMIT_VVAR

hpet_page = vvar_start + PAGE_SIZE; + pvclock_page = vvar_start + 2 * PAGE_SIZE;

. = SIZEOF_HEADERS;

--- a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso2c.c +++ b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso2c.c @@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ enum { sym_vvar_start, sym_vvar_page, sym_hpet_page, + sym_pvclock_page, sym_VDSO_FAKE_SECTION_TABLE_START, sym_VDSO_FAKE_SECTION_TABLE_END, }; @@ -80,6 +81,7 @@ enum { const int special_pages[] = { sym_vvar_page, sym_hpet_page, + sym_pvclock_page, };

struct vdso_sym { @@ -91,6 +93,7 @@ struct vdso_sym required_syms[] = { [sym_vvar_start] = {"vvar_start", true}, [sym_vvar_page] = {"vvar_page", true}, [sym_hpet_page] = {"hpet_page", true}, + [sym_pvclock_page] = {"pvclock_page", true}, [sym_VDSO_FAKE_SECTION_TABLE_START] = { "VDSO_FAKE_SECTION_TABLE_START", false }, --- a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c +++ b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c @@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ static int map_vdso(const struct vdso_im .name = "[vvar]", .pages = no_pages, }; + struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info *pvti;

if (calculate_addr) { addr = vdso_addr(current->mm->start_stack, @@ -169,6 +170,18 @@ static int map_vdso(const struct vdso_im } #endif

+ pvti = pvclock_pvti_cpu0_va(); + if (pvti && image->sym_pvclock_page) { + ret = remap_pfn_range(vma, + text_start + image->sym_pvclock_page, + __pa(pvti) >> PAGE_SHIFT, + PAGE_SIZE, + PAGE_READONLY); + + if (ret) + goto up_fail; + } + up_fail: if (ret) current->mm->context.vdso = NULL; --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pvclock.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pvclock.h @@ -4,6 +4,15 @@ #include <linux/clocksource.h> #include <asm/pvclock-abi.h>

+#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT_CLOCK +extern struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info *pvclock_pvti_cpu0_va(void); +#else +static inline struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info *pvclock_pvti_cpu0_va(void) +{ + return NULL; +} +#endif + /* some helper functions for xen and kvm pv clock sources */ cycle_t pvclock_clocksource_read(struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *src); u8 pvclock_read_flags(struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info *src); --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vdso.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vdso.h @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ struct vdso_image {

long sym_vvar_page; long sym_hpet_page; + long sym_pvclock_page; long sym_VDSO32_NOTE_MASK; long sym___kernel_sigreturn; long sym___kernel_rt_sigreturn; --- a/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kvmclock.c @@ -45,6 +45,11 @@ early_param("no-kvmclock", parse_no_kvmc static struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info *hv_clock; static struct pvclock_wall_clock wall_clock;

+struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info *pvclock_pvti_cpu0_va(void) +{ + return hv_clock; +} + /* * The wallclock is the time of day when we booted. Since then, some time may * have elapsed since the hypervisor wrote the data. So we try to account for

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luto@kernel.org are

queue-4.4/x86-paravirt-dont-patch-flush_tlb_single.patch queue-4.4/x86-boot-add-early-cmdline-parsing-for-options-with-arguments.patch queue-4.4/x86-vdso-pvclock-simplify-and-speed-up-the-vdso-pvclock-reader.patch queue-4.4/x86-vdso-get-pvclock-data-from-the-vvar-vma-instead-of-the-fixmap.patch