i386 vsyscall support (vdso-provided sysenter/syscall instruction based)

this doubles the performance of the fastest syscalls on the atom I
tested it on; improvement is reportedly much more dramatic on
worst-case cpus. cannot be used for cancellable syscalls.
This commit is contained in:
Rich Felker 2012-10-11 22:47:07 -04:00
commit 12e9b4faf6
4 changed files with 69 additions and 82 deletions

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@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ void __init_security(size_t *);
#define AUX_CNT 38
extern size_t __hwcap, __sysinfo;
void __init_libc(char **envp)
{
size_t i, *auxv, aux[AUX_CNT] = { 0 };
@ -14,6 +16,7 @@ void __init_libc(char **envp)
libc.auxv = auxv = (void *)(envp+i+1);
for (i=0; auxv[i]; i+=2) if (auxv[i]<AUX_CNT) aux[auxv[i]] = auxv[i+1];
__hwcap = aux[AT_HWCAP];
__sysinfo = aux[AT_SYSINFO];
__init_tls(aux);
__init_security(aux);

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@ -1,20 +1,62 @@
.hidden __sysinfo
.global __vsyscall
.type __vsyscall,@function
__vsyscall:
push %edi
push %ebx
mov %edx,%ebx
mov %edi,%edx
mov 12(%esp),%edi
push %eax
call 1f
2: pop %ebx
pop %ebx
pop %edi
ret
1: mov (%esp),%eax
add $[__sysinfo-2b],%eax
mov (%eax),%eax
test %eax,%eax
jz 1f
push %eax
mov 8(%esp),%eax
ret
1: mov 4(%esp),%eax
int $128
ret
.global __vsyscall6
.type __vsyscall6,@function
__vsyscall6:
push %ebp
push %eax
mov 12(%esp), %ebp
mov (%ebp), %eax
mov 4(%ebp), %ebp
push %eax
mov 4(%esp),%eax
call __vsyscall
pop %ebp
pop %ebp
pop %ebp
ret
.global __syscall
.type __syscall,@function
__syscall:
pushl %ebx
pushl %esi
pushl %edi
pushl %ebp
movl 20(%esp),%eax
movl 24(%esp),%ebx
movl 28(%esp),%ecx
movl 32(%esp),%edx
movl 36(%esp),%esi
movl 40(%esp),%edi
movl 44(%esp),%ebp
int $128
popl %ebp
popl %edi
popl %esi
popl %ebx
lea 24(%esp),%eax
push %esi
push %edi
push %eax
mov 16(%esp),%eax
mov 20(%esp),%edx
mov 24(%esp),%ecx
mov 28(%esp),%edi
mov 32(%esp),%esi
call __vsyscall6
pop %edi
pop %edi
pop %esi
ret

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@ -15,3 +15,4 @@ __asm__(".hidden __libc");
#endif
size_t __hwcap;
size_t __sysinfo;