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x86_64, vsyscall: Rewrite comment and clean up headers in vsyscall code

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vsyscall_64.c is just vsyscall emulation. Tidy it up accordingly.

[ tglx: Preserved the original copyright notices ]

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9c448d5643d0fdb618f8cde9a54c21d2bcd486ce.1414618407.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Andy Lutomirski 2014-10-29 14:33:46 -07:00 committed by Thomas Gleixner
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arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
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/*
* Copyright (c) 2012-2014 Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
*
* Based on the original implementation which is:
* Copyright (C) 2001 Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> SuSE
* Copyright 2003 Andi Kleen, SuSE Labs.
*
* [ NOTE: this mechanism is now deprecated in favor of the vDSO. ]
* Parts of the original code have been moved to arch/x86/vdso/vma.c
*
* Thanks to hpa@transmeta.com for some useful hint.
* Special thanks to Ingo Molnar for his early experience with
* a different vsyscall implementation for Linux/IA32 and for the name.
* This file implements vsyscall emulation. vsyscalls are a legacy ABI:
* Userspace can request certain kernel services by calling fixed
* addresses. This concept is problematic:
*
* vsyscall 1 is located at -10Mbyte, vsyscall 2 is located
* at virtual address -10Mbyte+1024bytes etc... There are at max 4
* vsyscalls. One vsyscall can reserve more than 1 slot to avoid
* jumping out of line if necessary. We cannot add more with this
* mechanism because older kernels won't return -ENOSYS.
* - It interferes with ASLR.
* - It's awkward to write code that lives in kernel addresses but is
* callable by userspace at fixed addresses.
* - The whole concept is impossible for 32-bit compat userspace.
* - UML cannot easily virtualize a vsyscall.
*
* Note: the concept clashes with user mode linux. UML users should
* use the vDSO.
* As of mid-2014, I believe that there is no new userspace code that
* will use a vsyscall if the vDSO is present. I hope that there will
* soon be no new userspace code that will ever use a vsyscall.
*
* The code in this file emulates vsyscalls when notified of a page
* fault to a vsyscall address.
*/
#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
#include <linux/time.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/timer.h>
#include <linux/seqlock.h>
#include <linux/jiffies.h>
#include <linux/sysctl.h>
#include <linux/topology.h>
#include <linux/timekeeper_internal.h>
#include <linux/getcpu.h>
#include <linux/cpu.h>
#include <linux/smp.h>
#include <linux/notifier.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
#include <linux/ratelimit.h>
#include <asm/vsyscall.h>
#include <asm/pgtable.h>
#include <asm/compat.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
#include <asm/unistd.h>
#include <asm/fixmap.h>
#include <asm/errno.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
#include <asm/segment.h>
#include <asm/desc.h>
#include <asm/topology.h>
#include <asm/traps.h>
#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS