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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH] time: Add warning about imminent deprecation of CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD
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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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