On 07/18/2011 09:07 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Until now UML had no x86_64 vDSO.
> So glibc always used the vsyscall page for gettimeday()
> and friends.
> Calls to gettimeday() returned falsely the host time and
> confused some programs.
>
> This patch adds a vDSO which turns all __vdso_* calls into
> a system call so that UML can trap them.
>
> As glibc still uses the vsyscall page for static binaries this
> patch improves the situation only for dynamic binaries.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger<[email protected]>
> + asm("syscall" : "=a" (ret) :
> + "0" (__NR_clock_gettime), "D" (clock), "S" (ts) : "memory");
> +
The x86-64 ABI and glibc think that rcx, and r11 are clobbered. glibc
also thinks that cc is clobbered. I personally think that rdx and
r8-r15 ought to be clobbered under the principle that syscall should
look like a function call.
It's hard to imagine this causing a problem in a function this trivial,
though.
This applies to the other two syscall instructions as well.
--Andy
P.S. If you really care, with the changes in tip/x86/vdso, it ought to
be possible for UML to trap vsyscalls as well. This would need a change
to do_emulate_vsyscall to honor TIF_SYSCALL_EMU with intelligent
semantics. I know nothing about ptrace, so I'm not volunteering :)
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