[PATCH v3 00/36] sparc64: vdso: Switch to the generic vDSO library
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de
Sat Sep 20 23:24:51 AEST 2025
Hi Thomas,
On Wed, 2025-09-17 at 16:00 +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> The generic vDSO provides a lot common functionality shared between
> different architectures. SPARC is the last architecture not using it,
> preventing some necessary code cleanup.
>
> Make use of the generic infrastructure.
>
> Follow-up to and replacement for Arnd's SPARC vDSO removal patches:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250707144726.4008707-1-arnd@kernel.org/
>
> Tested on a Niagara T4 and QEMU.
>
> This has a semantic conflict with my series "vdso: Reject absolute
> relocations during build". The last patch of this series expects all users
> of the generic vDSO library to use the vdsocheck tool.
> This is not the case (yet) for SPARC64. I do have the patches for the
> integration, the specifics will depend on which series is applied first.
>
> Based on tip/timers/vdso.
Could you share a version of the series based on top of 6.17.0-rcN for
testing purposes? I would like to test the series on a Sun Netra 240
which is based on the UltraSPARC IIIi.
Adrian
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