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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] x86: Mark __vdso entries as asmlinkage
On 02/26/2014 07:39 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 05:02:13PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> This makes no difference for 64-bit, bit it's critical for 32-bit code:
>> these functions are called from outside the kernel, so they need to comply
>> with the ABI.
>
> That's an odd patch. If that was wrong things couldn't have worked at all.
> Probably hidden by inlining? If yes just make it static
>
> Also you would rather need notrace more often.
>

It has to support *an* ABI... the syscall vdso entry point uses the old
int $0x80 calling convention rather than the normal ABI. It would
depend on the test program and eventual glibc implementation. And sure
enough, the test program has:

int (*vdso_gettimeofday)(struct timeval *tv, struct timezone *tz)
__attribute__ ((regparm (3)));
int (*vdso_clock_gettime)(clockid_t clk_id, struct timespec *tp)
__attribute__ ((regparm (3)));
time_t (*vdso_time)(time_t *t) __attribute__ ((regparm (3)));

That being said, since this code is compiled separately, the compiler
flags there determine what actually matters. However, there we have:

KBUILD_CFLAGS_32 += -m32 -msoft-float -mregparm=3 -freg-struct-return -fpic

The normal ABI almost certainly makes more sense; as such -mregparm=3 is
probably not what we want, and I suspect it makes more sense to just
drop that from the CFLAGS line?

-hpa



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