Hi Kyle, On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 09:41:44PM +0000, Kyle McMartin wrote: > Currently on ARM64 with 4K pages set, GDB fails to load the VDSO with > the error "Failed to read a valid object file image from memory" as it > is applying the phdr alignment to the vma, and attempting to read below > where the VDSO is mapped. This is because our segment alignment is 64K > in the ELF headers, but the VDSO only has PAGE_SIZE alignment from > get_unmapped_area. > > Work around this by calling vm_unmapped_area directly, and specifying > the worst case alignment (64K) directly. > > With this patch applied, I no longer have issues loading the VDSO in > gdb (and no more error message every time I run a program inside it.) > > Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <k...@redhat.com> > > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c > @@ -163,7 +163,18 @@ int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm > *bprm, > vdso_mapping_len = (vdso_pages + 1) << PAGE_SHIFT; > > down_write(&mm->mmap_sem); > - vdso_base = get_unmapped_area(NULL, 0, vdso_mapping_len, 0, 0); > + { > + /* the VDSO must be worst-case aligned to 64K */ > + struct vm_unmapped_area_info info = > + { > + .flags = 0, > + .length = vdso_mapping_len, > + .low_limit = mm->mmap_base, > + .high_limit = TASK_SIZE, > + .align_mask = (1 << 16) - 1, > + }; > + vdso_base = vm_unmapped_area(&info); > + }
I don't like this fix. The kernel is perfectly alright mapping the vdso at the actual page size, as opposed to the maximum. Since the vdso isn't demand-paged, we can actually just tell the linker not to bother forcing 64k (worst case) alignment for PT_LOAD segments. Please can you try the patch below? Will --->8 diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile index d8064af42e62..6d20b7d162d8 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ $(obj-vdso): %.o: %.S # Actual build commands quiet_cmd_vdsold = VDSOL $@ - cmd_vdsold = $(CC) $(c_flags) -Wl,-T $^ -o $@ + cmd_vdsold = $(CC) $(c_flags) -Wl,-n -Wl,-T $^ -o $@ quiet_cmd_vdsoas = VDSOA $@ cmd_vdsoas = $(CC) $(a_flags) -c -o $@ $< -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/