History log of /freebsd-current/sys/arm64/linux/linux_vdso.lds.s
Revision Date Author Comments
# 95ee2897 16-Aug-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

sys: Remove $FreeBSD$: two-line .h pattern

Remove /^\s*\*\n \*\s+\$FreeBSD\$$\n/


# d957343f 14-May-2023 Dmitry Chagin <dchagin@FreeBSD.org>

linux(4): Rework signal trampoline on Aarch64

To avoid clobbering of any registers by the trampoline code use Linux
way to call signal handlers. I.e., we are out from the kernel right into
the signal handler, put return address from the signal handler into the
link register.
The mysterious NOP is required for some unwinders (e.g. libc++) that
unconditionally subtract one from the result of _Unwind_GetIP() in order
to identify the calling function.

MFC after: 1 week


# 5f19e18b 14-May-2023 Dmitry Chagin <dchagin@FreeBSD.org>

linux(4): Get rid of linux_vdso_sigcode

MFC after: 1 week


# c56480a8 15-May-2022 Dmitry Chagin <dchagin@FreeBSD.org>

linux(4): Implement signal trampoline for arm64 in a FreeBSD-way

The implemenation differs from others Linuxulators.
For unwinders Linux ucontext_t is stored, however native machine context
is used to store/restore process state to avoid code duplication.

As DWARF Aarch64 does not define a register number for PC and provides no
direct way to encode the PC of the previous frame, CFI cannot describe a
signal trampoline frame. So, modified the vdso linker script to discard
unused sections.

Extensions are not implemented.

MFC after: 2 weeks


# 9931033b 20-Jul-2021 Dmitry Chagin <dchagin@FreeBSD.org>

linux(4); Almost complete the vDSO.

The vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object) is a small shared library that the
kernel maps R/O into the address space of all Linux processes on image
activation. The vDSO is a fully formed ELF image, shared by all processes
with the same ABI, has no process private data.

The primary purpose of the vDSO:
- non-executable stack, signal trampolines not copied to the stack;
- signal trampolines unwind, mandatory for the NPTL;
- to avoid contex-switch overhead frequently used system calls can be
implemented in the vDSO: for now gettimeofday, clock_gettime.

The first two have been implemented, so add the implementation of system
calls.

System calls implemenation based on a native timekeeping code with some
limitations:
- ifunc can't be used, as vDSO r/o mapped to the process VA and rtld
can't relocate symbols;
- reading HPET memory is not implemented for now (TODO).

In case on any error vDSO system calls fallback to the kernel system
calls. For unimplemented vDSO system calls added prototypes which call
corresponding kernel system call.

Tested by: trasz (arm64)
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30900
MFC after: 2 weeks


# d01c382e 28-Jun-2018 Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>

Add stub arm64 linuxulator VDSO ldscript

This needs to be revisited with the VDSO implementation, but is
sufficient to allow the linux64 module to build on arm64 for testing
and development.

Sponsored by: Turing Robotic Industries