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[v3,0/6] arm64: add the time namespace support

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Andrei Vagin April 16, 2020, 5:26 a.m. UTC
Allocate the time namespace page among VVAR pages and add the logic
to handle faults on VVAR properly.

If a task belongs to a time namespace then the VVAR page which contains
the system wide VDSO data is replaced with a namespace specific page
which has the same layout as the VVAR page. That page has vdso_data->seq
set to 1 to enforce the slow path and vdso_data->clock_mode set to
VCLOCK_TIMENS to enforce the time namespace handling path.

The extra check in the case that vdso_data->seq is odd, e.g. a concurrent
update of the VDSO data is in progress, is not really affecting regular
tasks which are not part of a time namespace as the task is spin waiting
for the update to finish and vdso_data->seq to become even again.

If a time namespace task hits that code path, it invokes the corresponding
time getter function which retrieves the real VVAR page, reads host time
and then adds the offset for the requested clock which is stored in the
special VVAR page.

v2: Code cleanups suggested by Vincenzo.
v3: use OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR() instead of inline assembly in
    __arch_get_timens_vdso_data.

Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>

v3 on github (if someone prefers `git pull` to `git am`):
https://github.com/avagin/linux-task-diag/tree/arm64/timens-v3

Andrei Vagin (6):
  arm64/vdso: use the fault callback to map vvar pages
  arm64/vdso: Zap vvar pages when switching to a time namespace
  arm64/vdso: Add time napespace page
  arm64/vdso: Handle faults on timens page
  arm64/vdso: Restrict splitting VVAR VMA
  arm64: enable time namespace support

 arch/arm64/Kconfig                            |   1 +
 .../include/asm/vdso/compat_gettimeofday.h    |  11 ++
 arch/arm64/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h    |   8 ++
 arch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c                      | 134 ++++++++++++++++--
 arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S             |   3 +-
 arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/vdso.lds.S           |   3 +-
 include/vdso/datapage.h                       |   1 +
 7 files changed, 147 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

Comments

Vincenzo Frascino May 20, 2020, 12:02 p.m. UTC | #1
Hi Andrei,

On 4/16/20 6:26 AM, Andrei Vagin wrote:
> Allocate the time namespace page among VVAR pages and add the logic
> to handle faults on VVAR properly.
> 
> If a task belongs to a time namespace then the VVAR page which contains
> the system wide VDSO data is replaced with a namespace specific page
> which has the same layout as the VVAR page. That page has vdso_data->seq
> set to 1 to enforce the slow path and vdso_data->clock_mode set to
> VCLOCK_TIMENS to enforce the time namespace handling path.
> 
> The extra check in the case that vdso_data->seq is odd, e.g. a concurrent
> update of the VDSO data is in progress, is not really affecting regular
> tasks which are not part of a time namespace as the task is spin waiting
> for the update to finish and vdso_data->seq to become even again.
> 
> If a time namespace task hits that code path, it invokes the corresponding
> time getter function which retrieves the real VVAR page, reads host time
> and then adds the offset for the requested clock which is stored in the
> special VVAR page.
> 
> v2: Code cleanups suggested by Vincenzo.
> v3: use OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR() instead of inline assembly in
>     __arch_get_timens_vdso_data.
> 

Nit: If you re-post, I would remove the OPTIMIZER_HIDE_VAR() reference because
it does not reflect the current status of the patches.

I tested it again with your latest change in the test code and it works for me
(thank you for sending a patch for the test as well).

With this:

Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>

> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
> 
> v3 on github (if someone prefers `git pull` to `git am`):
> https://github.com/avagin/linux-task-diag/tree/arm64/timens-v3
> 
> Andrei Vagin (6):
>   arm64/vdso: use the fault callback to map vvar pages
>   arm64/vdso: Zap vvar pages when switching to a time namespace
>   arm64/vdso: Add time napespace page
>   arm64/vdso: Handle faults on timens page
>   arm64/vdso: Restrict splitting VVAR VMA
>   arm64: enable time namespace support
> 
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig                            |   1 +
>  .../include/asm/vdso/compat_gettimeofday.h    |  11 ++
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h    |   8 ++
>  arch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c                      | 134 ++++++++++++++++--
>  arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds.S             |   3 +-
>  arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/vdso.lds.S           |   3 +-
>  include/vdso/datapage.h                       |   1 +
>  7 files changed, 147 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>