[PATCH] powerpc vdso updates

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 13:15 +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> > This patch cleans up some locking & error handling in the ppc vdso and
> > moves the vdso base pointer from the thread struct to the mm context
> > where it more logically belongs. It brings the powerpc implementation
> > closer to Ingo's new x86 one and also adds an arch_vma_name() function
> > allowing to print [vsdo] in /proc/<pid>/maps if Ingo's x86 vdso patch is
> > also applied.
> 
> Im getting this on the current powerpc git tree:
> 
> arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c: In function 'handle_rt_signal':
> arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c:763: error: request for member
> 'vdso_base' in something not a structure or union
> 
> It looks like we use the mm_context_t definition in asm-ppc/mmu.h for
> 32bit ARCH=powerpc builds and need vdso_base there too.

Yes, I have a patch almost ready for that.

Ben.