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powerpc/vdso: Separate vvar vma from vdso
authorDmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:48:46 +0000 (16:48 +0000)
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Wed, 14 Apr 2021 13:04:44 +0000 (23:04 +1000)
commitf48e1d37b7d1e84f1a7afbf3c0b785200181faf7
tree990ef2cd3911e77483673406012675981cee0f34
parentd849186dd0005603fe2679a22ae585494108b210
powerpc/vdso: Separate vvar vma from vdso

Since commit 05badb98c964 ("powerpc/vdso: Move vdso datapage up front")
VVAR page is in front of the VDSO area. In result it breaks CRIU
(Checkpoint Restore In Userspace) [1], where CRIU expects that "[vdso]"
from /proc/../maps points at ELF/vdso image, rather than at VVAR data page.
Laurent made a patch to keep CRIU working (by reading aux vector).
But I think it still makes sence to separate two mappings into different
VMAs. It will also make ppc64 less "special" for userspace and as
a side-bonus will make VVAR page un-writable by debugger (which previously
would COW page and can be unexpected).

I opportunistically Cc stable on it: I understand that usually such
stuff isn't a stable material, but that will allow us in CRIU have
one workaround less that is needed just for one release (v5.11) on
one platform (ppc64), which we otherwise have to maintain.
I wouldn't go as far as to say that the commit 05badb98c964 is ABI
regression as no other userspace got broken, but I'd really appreciate
if it gets backported to v5.11 after v5.12 is released, so as not
to complicate already non-simple CRIU-vdso code. Thanks!

[1]: https://github.com/checkpoint-restore/criu/issues/1417

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.11
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Tested-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> # vDSO parts.
Acked-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f401eb1ebc0bfc4d8f0e10dc8e525fd409eb68e2.1617209142.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h
arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c