[PATCH 10/11] vdso: Drop kconfig GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed Aug 27 05:34:39 AEST 2025
On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 08:17:13AM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> All architectures implementing time-related functionality in the vDSO are
> using the generic vDSO library which handles time namespaces properly.
>
> Remove the now unnecessary kconfig symbol.
>
> Enables the use of time namespaces on architectures, which use the
> generic vDSO but did not enable GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS, namely MIPS and arm.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh at linutronix.de>
>
> ---
> Technically this is still too restrictive, as it prevents architectures
> without a real vDSO to enable CONFIG_TIME_NS. Right now this restriction
> only protects the SPARC vDSO. I have patches to drop it completely,
> as soon as SPARC is usingthe generic vDSO.
> ---
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 -
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
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