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Re: [RFC 0/3] Put vdso in ramfs-like filesystem (vdsofs)

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On 09/20/16 17:54, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>  - If vvar is in the same inode, then that inode won't be a valid ELF
> image, because the ELF header won't be in the right place.

So the vvar ought to move into an actual ELF segment, which is probably
The Right Thing anyway.

>  - vvar is highly magical.  IMO letting it get mapped with VM_MAYWRITE
> is asking for trouble, as anything that writes it will COW it, leading
> to strange malfunctions.
> 
>  - vvar can, and has, had IO pages in it.  This means that the actual
> cache types can vary page-to-page in the vvar area, which is not
> something that ordinary files do.

Neither of these are any different than many devices, or various files
in procfs.

> My personal preference is to let them both be real struct file *
> objects (possibly shared between all processes of the same vdso ABI)
> but to prevent user code from ever creating an fd referring to one of
> these files.

Why?  It would help people doing weird things like process snapshotting
or bimodal execution enormously.  We want to share an inode, obviously;
the pointer is another issue.

> Also, if we let the users get an fd pointing to the vdso, then we're
> more or less committing to never having contents in the vdso text that
> vary per-process.  Are we okay with that.

This might be a reason to put these objects in procfs rather than sysfs,
but I have to admit that this seems *extremely* far fetched to me.
Obviously they vary per process in the sense that there are already
several to choose from.  In the case of process-unique vdsos there would
be a large number of them, of course.

	-hpa

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Re: [RFC 0/3] Put vdso in ramfs-like filesystem (vdsofs) "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-09-21 02:30 +0200
  Re: [RFC 0/3] Put vdso in ramfs-like filesystem (vdsofs) "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-09-21 02:40 +0200
    Re: [RFC 0/3] Put vdso in ramfs-like filesystem (vdsofs) Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-09-21 03:00 +0200
      Re: [RFC 0/3] Put vdso in ramfs-like filesystem (vdsofs) "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-09-21 03:10 +0200
        Re: [RFC 0/3] Put vdso in ramfs-like filesystem (vdsofs) "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-09-21 03:20 +0200
          Re: [RFC 0/3] Put vdso in ramfs-like filesystem (vdsofs) Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-09-21 08:50 +0200

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