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Commit 550a77a7 authored by Dmitry Safonov's avatar Dmitry Safonov Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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x86/vdso: Add time napespace page



To support time namespaces in the VDSO with a minimal impact on regular non
time namespace affected tasks, the namespace handling needs to be hidden in
a slow path.

The most obvious place is vdso_seq_begin(). If a task belongs to a time
namespace then the VVAR page which contains the system wide VDSO data is
replaced with a namespace specific page which has the same layout as the
VVAR page. That page has vdso_data->seq set to 1 to enforce the slow path
and vdso_data->clock_mode set to VCLOCK_TIMENS to enforce the time
namespace handling path.

The extra check in the case that vdso_data->seq is odd, e.g. a concurrent
update of the VDSO data is in progress, is not really affecting regular
tasks which are not part of a time namespace as the task is spin waiting
for the update to finish and vdso_data->seq to become even again.

If a time namespace task hits that code path, it invokes the corresponding
time getter function which retrieves the real VVAR page, reads host time
and then adds the offset for the requested clock which is stored in the
special VVAR page.

Allocate the time namespace page among VVAR pages and place vdso_data on
it.  Provide __arch_get_timens_vdso_data() helper for VDSO code to get the
code-relative position of VVARs on that special page.

Co-developed-by: default avatarAndrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112012724.250792-23-dima@arista.com
parent 64b302ab
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