Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] powerpc/mm: Tracking vDSO remap

From: Ingo Molnar <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 19:33:16 +0100

* Laurent Dufour <[email-masked]> wrote:

> +static inline void arch_unmap(struct mm_struct *mm,
> +			struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> +			unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
> +{
> +	if (start <= mm->context.vdso_base && mm->context.vdso_base < end)
> +		mm->context.vdso_base = 0;
> +}

So AFAICS PowerPC can have multi-page vDSOs, right?

So what happens if I munmap() the middle or end of the vDSO? The above 
condition only seems to cover unmaps that affect the first page. I 
think 'affects any page' ought to be the right condition? (But I know 
nothing about PowerPC so I might be wrong.)

> +#define __HAVE_ARCH_REMAP
> +static inline void arch_remap(struct mm_struct *mm,
> +			      unsigned long old_start, unsigned long old_end,
> +			      unsigned long new_start, unsigned long new_end)
> +{
> +	/*
> +	 * mremap() doesn't allow moving multiple vmas so we can limit the
> +	 * check to old_start == vdso_base.
> +	 */
> +	if (old_start == mm->context.vdso_base)
> +		mm->context.vdso_base = new_start;
> +}

mremap() doesn't allow moving multiple vmas, but it allows the 
movement of multi-page vmas and it also allows partial mremap()s, 
where it will split up a vma.

In particular, what happens if an mremap() is done with 
old_start == vdso_base, but a shorter end than the end of the vDSO? 
(i.e. a partial mremap() with fewer pages than the vDSO size)

Thanks,

	Ingo