From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Collected vdso/vsyscall fixes for 3.1 Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 09:56:04 -0400 Message-ID: <20110803135604.GA29761__7104.98595512963$1312379811$gmane$org@dumpdata.com> References: <20110803135322.GC29501@dumpdata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110803135322.GC29501@dumpdata.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Andy Lutomirski , mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, x86@kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, keir.xen@gmail.com List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 09:53:22AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 09:31:48AM -0400, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > This fixes various problems that cropped up with the vdso patches. > > > > - Patch 1 fixes an information leak to userspace. > > - Patches 2 and 3 fix the kernel build on gold. > > - Patches 4 and 5 fix Xen (I hope). > > - Patch 6 (optional) adds a trace event to vsyscall emulation. It will > > make it easier to handle performance regression reports :) > > Hm, you seemed to have the x86 maintainers on your email.. I definitly need some coffee. What I meant was that you missing putting the x86 maintainers on this patchset. They are the ones that will handle this. I put them on the To list for you. > > > > [1] https://gitorious.org/linux-test-utils/linux-clock-tests > > > > Changes from v1: > > - Improve changelog message for "x86-64/xen: Enable the vvar mapping" > > - Fix 32-bit build. > > - Add patch 6. > > > > Andy Lutomirski (6): > > x86-64: Pad vDSO to a page boundary > > x86-64: Move the "user" vsyscall segment out of the data segment. > > x86-64: Work around gold bug 13023 > > x86-64/xen: Enable the vvar mapping > > x86-64: Add user_64bit_mode paravirt op > > x86-64: Add vsyscall:emulate_vsyscall trace event > > > > arch/x86/include/asm/desc.h | 4 +- > > arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h | 6 ++++ > > arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h | 19 +++++++++++++ > > arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c | 4 +++ > > arch/x86/kernel/step.c | 2 +- > > arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 46 ++++++++++++++++++--------------- > > arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c | 12 +++++--- > > arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_trace.h | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++ > > arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 2 +- > > arch/x86/vdso/vdso.S | 1 + > > arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 4 +++ > > arch/x86/xen/mmu.c | 4 ++- > > 12 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) > > create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_trace.h > > > > -- > > 1.7.6