Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] time: Add warning about imminent deprecation of CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Tue, 23 May 2017 06:45:50 +1000 |
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On Mon, 2017-05-22 at 12:06 -0700, John Stultz wrote: > So, long ago I talked w/ Paul Mackerras about the ppc vdso code, as > ppc has some other legacy "userspace time" code that has to be > maintained as well (I believe there's not code page, just data page > that userspace pulls directly from).
Hrm... the ppc VDSO has a code page, userspace just calls __kernel_clock_*
I don't know if anything still uses the direct mapped values, we should enquire internally.
Cheers, Ben.
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