The actual intention is that no dynamic relocation exists in the VDSO. For
this the VDSO build validates that the resulting .so file does not have any
relocations which are specified via $(ARCH_REL_TYPE_ABS) per architecture,
which is fragile as e.g. ARM64 lacks an entry for R_AARCH64_RELATIVE. Aside
of that ARCH_REL_TYPE_ABS is a misnomer as it checks for relative
relocations too.
However, some GNU ld ports produce unneeded R_*_NONE relocation entries. If
a port fails to determine the exact .rel[a].dyn size, the trailing zeros
become R_*_NONE relocations. E.g. ld's powerpc port recently fixed
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29540). R_*_NONE are
generally a no-op in the dynamic loaders. So just ignore them.
Remove the ARCH_REL_TYPE_ABS defines and just validate that the resulting
.so file does not contain any R_* relocation entries except R_*_NONE.
Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> # for aarch64
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> # for vDSO, aarch64
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230310190750.3323802-1-maskray@google.com
It could help to reduce the latency of the time-related functions
in user space.
We have referenced arm's and riscv's implementation for the patch.
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@sifive.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reconstruct vdso framework to support future vsyscall,
vgettimeofday features. These are very important features to reduce
system calls into the kernel for performance improvement.
The patch is reference RISC-V's
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Fangrui Song