arm64: vdso: put vdso datapage in a separate vma
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Wed, 9 Jul 2014 18:22:11 +0000 (19:22 +0100)
committerMark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Tue, 22 Jul 2014 23:37:26 +0000 (00:37 +0100)
commitb44e79e0d891a097da4328538f4722c8fb581c3b
treee67e17e93b78dafc1862af5696021170311d1c3e
parenta39a796dd388d14a65d26753a3430be66a100265
arm64: vdso: put vdso datapage in a separate vma

The VDSO datapage doesn't need to be executable (no code there) or
CoW-able (the kernel writes the page, so a private copy is totally
useless).

This patch moves the datapage into its own VMA, identified as "[vvar]"
in /proc/<pid>/maps.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
(cherry picked from commit 8715493852783358ef8656a0054a14bf822509cf)
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
arch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c