Re: [PATCH v13 8/9] Add 32 bit VDSO time support for 32 bit kernel

[Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>]

> +notrace static long vdso_fallback_gettime(long clock, struct timespec *ts)
> +{
> +	long ret;
> +
> +	asm(
> +		"push %%ebx \n"
> +		"mov %2,%%ebx \n"
> +		"call VDSO32_vsyscall \n"
> +		"pop %%ebx \n"
> +		: "=a" (ret)
> +		: "0" (__NR_clock_gettime), "d" (clock), "c" (ts)
> +		: "memory");

The push/mov/pop could be just replaced with "b"?
Also I if this calls syscall.S:__kernel_vsyscall it clobbers more registers
(ecx at least?) and you need to describe that to gcc with a + 

Same in the other sys calls.

> @@ -310,6 +311,11 @@ int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm, int uses_interp)
>  	unsigned long addr;
>  	int ret = 0;
>  	bool compat;
> +	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> +	extern char __vvar_page;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_HPET_TIMER
> +	extern unsigned long hpet_address;
> +#endif

Put this into a header.

> +++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/vclock_gettime.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
> +#define BUILD_VDSO32
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> +
> +#define _ASM_X86_PAGE_H
> +
> +#define __pa(x)                0
> +#define __va(x)                0
> +
> +#undef CONFIG_ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE
> +#define CONFIG_ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE   0

This needs some comments.

Why are the __pa/__va defines safe?

The rest of the patchkit looks reasonable to me from a quick read.
Much better than the first version.

-Andi

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