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/*
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+ * Copyright (c) 2012-2014 Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
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+ *
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+ * Based on the original implementation which is:
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* Copyright (C) 2001 Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> SuSE
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* Copyright 2003 Andi Kleen, SuSE Labs.
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*
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- * [ NOTE: this mechanism is now deprecated in favor of the vDSO. ]
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+ * Parts of the original code have been moved to arch/x86/vdso/vma.c
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+ *
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+ * This file implements vsyscall emulation. vsyscalls are a legacy ABI:
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+ * Userspace can request certain kernel services by calling fixed
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+ * addresses. This concept is problematic:
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*
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- * Thanks to hpa@transmeta.com for some useful hint.
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- * Special thanks to Ingo Molnar for his early experience with
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- * a different vsyscall implementation for Linux/IA32 and for the name.
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+ * - It interferes with ASLR.
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+ * - It's awkward to write code that lives in kernel addresses but is
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+ * callable by userspace at fixed addresses.
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+ * - The whole concept is impossible for 32-bit compat userspace.
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+ * - UML cannot easily virtualize a vsyscall.
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*
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- * vsyscall 1 is located at -10Mbyte, vsyscall 2 is located
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- * at virtual address -10Mbyte+1024bytes etc... There are at max 4
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- * vsyscalls. One vsyscall can reserve more than 1 slot to avoid
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- * jumping out of line if necessary. We cannot add more with this
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- * mechanism because older kernels won't return -ENOSYS.
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+ * As of mid-2014, I believe that there is no new userspace code that
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+ * will use a vsyscall if the vDSO is present. I hope that there will
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+ * soon be no new userspace code that will ever use a vsyscall.
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*
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- * Note: the concept clashes with user mode linux. UML users should
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- * use the vDSO.
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+ * The code in this file emulates vsyscalls when notified of a page
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+ * fault to a vsyscall address.
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*/
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-#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
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-
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-#include <linux/time.h>
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-#include <linux/init.h>
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#include <linux/kernel.h>
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#include <linux/timer.h>
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-#include <linux/seqlock.h>
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-#include <linux/jiffies.h>
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-#include <linux/sysctl.h>
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-#include <linux/topology.h>
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-#include <linux/timekeeper_internal.h>
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-#include <linux/getcpu.h>
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-#include <linux/cpu.h>
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-#include <linux/smp.h>
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-#include <linux/notifier.h>
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#include <linux/syscalls.h>
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#include <linux/ratelimit.h>
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#include <asm/vsyscall.h>
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-#include <asm/pgtable.h>
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-#include <asm/compat.h>
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-#include <asm/page.h>
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#include <asm/unistd.h>
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#include <asm/fixmap.h>
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-#include <asm/errno.h>
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-#include <asm/io.h>
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-#include <asm/segment.h>
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-#include <asm/desc.h>
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-#include <asm/topology.h>
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#include <asm/traps.h>
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#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
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