Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Ellerman <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] time: Add warning about imminent deprecation of CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD | Date | Mon, 22 May 2017 10:58:50 +1000 |
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John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> writes:
> CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD was introduced five years ago > to allow a transition from the old vsyscall implementations to > the new method (which simplified internal accounting and made > timekeeping more precise).
I'm sure it's completely obvious to everyone except me what needs to be done, but can you spell it out for me? Keeping in mind that I don't know anything about the time keeping code.
> However, PPC and IA64 have yet to make the transition, despite > in some cases me sending test patches to try to help it along. > > http://patches.linaro.org/patch/30501/ > http://patches.linaro.org/patch/35412/
I've never seen a PPC patch, did you send one?
> If its helpful, my last pass at the patches can be found here: > https://git.linaro.org/people/john.stultz/linux.git dev/oldvsyscall-cleanup
Looks like it's just a draft for PPC. Do you think that should work and it just needs testing? The comment about the vdso being "slightly behind" is a little concerning.
cheers
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