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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/6] x86: Clean up and unify the vdso
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
> This rewrites a bunch of the vdso code. After these patches, the vvar
> and hpet pages are mapped directly after the vdso text on all five vdso
> variants. The fixmaps are gone on 64-bit systems.
>
> It would be possible to build the x32 vdso the normal way on top of
> these patches.
>
> I haven't touched the pvclock code. I'd want to understand why it
> exists, why it isn't using rdtsc, and why it has two rdtsc_barrier calls
> before rearranging it.
>
> This is most likely 3.16 material.
>
> Andy Lutomirski (6):
> x86: Clean up 32-bit vs 64-bit vdso params
> x86: Move syscall and sysenter setup into kernel/cpu/common.c
> x86: Reimplement vdso.so preparation in build-time C

This breaks gold. I'll submit a v2 after the merge window with a fix.
(It's a trivial change to the linker script and shouldn't
meaningfully affect any effort to review this series.)

> x86: Move the 32-bit vdso special pages after the text
> x86: Move the vvar and hpet mappings next to the 64-bit vDSO
> x86: Remove vestiges of VDSO_PRELINK and some outdated comments

--Andy


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