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authorGlenn Elliott <gelliott@cs.unc.edu>2012-03-04 19:47:13 -0500
committerGlenn Elliott <gelliott@cs.unc.edu>2012-03-04 19:47:13 -0500
commitc71c03bda1e86c9d5198c5d83f712e695c4f2a1e (patch)
treeecb166cb3e2b7e2adb3b5e292245fefd23381ac8 /arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h
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parent6a00f206debf8a5c8899055726ad127dbeeed098 (diff)
Merge branch 'mpi-master' into wip-k-fmlpwip-k-fmlp
Conflicts: litmus/sched_cedf.c
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1/*
2 * vvar.h: Shared vDSO/kernel variable declarations
3 * Copyright (c) 2011 Andy Lutomirski
4 * Subject to the GNU General Public License, version 2
5 *
6 * A handful of variables are accessible (read-only) from userspace
7 * code in the vsyscall page and the vdso. They are declared here.
8 * Some other file must define them with DEFINE_VVAR.
9 *
10 * In normal kernel code, they are used like any other variable.
11 * In user code, they are accessed through the VVAR macro.
12 *
13 * Each of these variables lives in the vsyscall page, and each
14 * one needs a unique offset within the little piece of the page
15 * reserved for vvars. Specify that offset in DECLARE_VVAR.
16 * (There are 896 bytes available. If you mess up, the linker will
17 * catch it.)
18 */
19
20/* Offset of vars within vsyscall page */
21#define VSYSCALL_VARS_OFFSET (3072 + 128)
22
23#if defined(__VVAR_KERNEL_LDS)
24
25/* The kernel linker script defines its own magic to put vvars in the
26 * right place.
27 */
28#define DECLARE_VVAR(offset, type, name) \
29 EMIT_VVAR(name, VSYSCALL_VARS_OFFSET + offset)
30
31#else
32
33#define DECLARE_VVAR(offset, type, name) \
34 static type const * const vvaraddr_ ## name = \
35 (void *)(VSYSCALL_START + VSYSCALL_VARS_OFFSET + (offset));
36
37#define DEFINE_VVAR(type, name) \
38 type __vvar_ ## name \
39 __attribute__((section(".vsyscall_var_" #name), aligned(16)))
40
41#define VVAR(name) (*vvaraddr_ ## name)
42
43#endif
44
45/* DECLARE_VVAR(offset, type, name) */
46
47DECLARE_VVAR(0, volatile unsigned long, jiffies)
48DECLARE_VVAR(8, int, vgetcpu_mode)
49DECLARE_VVAR(128, struct vsyscall_gtod_data, vsyscall_gtod_data)
50
51#undef DECLARE_VVAR
52#undef VSYSCALL_VARS_OFFSET