/* * vvar.h: Shared vDSO/kernel variable declarations * Copyright (c) 2011 Andy Lutomirski * Subject to the GNU General Public License, version 2 * * A handful of variables are accessible (read-only) from userspace * code in the vsyscall page and the vdso. They are declared here. * Some other file must define them with DEFINE_VVAR. * * In normal kernel code, they are used like any other variable. * In user code, they are accessed through the VVAR macro. * * Each of these variables lives in the vsyscall page, and each * one needs a unique offset within the little piece of the page * reserved for vvars. Specify that offset in DECLARE_VVAR. * (There are 896 bytes available. If you mess up, the linker will * catch it.) */ /* Offset of vars within vsyscall page */ #define VSYSCALL_VARS_OFFSET (3072 + 128) #if defined(__VVAR_KERNEL_LDS) /* The kernel linker script defines its own magic to put vvars in the * right place. */ #define DECLARE_VVAR(offset, type, name) \ EMIT_VVAR(name, VSYSCALL_VARS_OFFSET + offset) #else #define DECLARE_VVAR(offset, type, name) \ static type const * const vvaraddr_ ## name = \ (void *)(VSYSCALL_START + VSYSCALL_VARS_OFFSET + (offset)); #define DEFINE_VVAR(type, name) \ type __vvar_ ## name \ __attribute__((section(".vsyscall_var_" #name), aligned(16))) #define VVAR(name) (*vvaraddr_ ## name) #endif /* DECLARE_VVAR(offset, type, name) */ DECLARE_VVAR(0, volatile unsigned long, jiffies) DECLARE_VVAR(16, int, vgetcpu_mode) DECLARE_VVAR(128, struct vsyscall_gtod_data, vsyscall_gtod_data) #undef DECLARE_VVAR #undef VSYSCALL_VARS_OFFSET