The powerpc optimization to provide a fast stacktrace requires some
ad-hoc code to handle Linux signal frames and the change is fragile
once the kernel decides to slight change its execution sequence [1].
The generic implementation work as-is and it should be future proof
since the kernel provides the expected CFI directives in vDSO shared
page.
Checked on powerpc-linux-gnu, powerpc64le-linux-gnu, and
powerpc64-linux-gnu.
[1] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2021-January/122027.html
I used these shell commands:
../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright
(cd ../glibc && git commit -am"[this commit message]")
and then ignored the output, which consisted lines saying "FOO: warning:
copyright statement not found" for each of 6694 files FOO.
I then removed trailing white space from benchtests/bench-pthread-locks.c
and iconvdata/tst-iconv-big5-hkscs-to-2ucs4.c, to work around this
diagnostic from Savannah:
remote: *** pre-commit check failed ...
remote: *** error: lines with trailing whitespace found
remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master
No architecture currently defines the vDSO symbol. On archictures
with 64-bit time_t the HAVE_CLOCK_GETRES_VSYSCALL is renamed to
HAVE_CLOCK_GETRES64_VSYSCALL, it simplifies clock_gettime code.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
No architecture currently defines the vDSO symbol. On architectures
with 64-bit time_t the HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME_VSYSCALL is renamed to
HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME64_VSYSCALL, it simplifies clock_gettime code.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
This patch moves the vDSO setup from libc to loader code, just after
the vDSO link_map setup. For static case the initialization
is moved to _dl_non_dynamic_init instead.
Instead of using the mangled pointer, the vDSO data is set as
attribute_relro (on _rtld_global_ro for shared or _dl_vdso_* for
static). It is read-only even with partial relro.
It fixes BZ#24967 now that the vDSO pointer is setup earlier than
malloc interposition is called.
Also, vDSO calls should not be a problem for static dlopen as
indicated by BZ#20802. The vDSO pointer would be zero-initialized
and the syscall will be issued instead.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu, i686-linux-gnu, aarch64-linux-gnu,
arm-linux-gnueabihf, powerpc64le-linux-gnu, powerpc64-linux-gnu,
powerpc-linux-gnu, s390x-linux-gnu, sparc64-linux-gnu, and
sparcv9-linux-gnu. I also run some tests on mips.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>