[PATCH v9 0/6] ARM: VDSO

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Christopher Covington
<cov at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> It appears to me that there is code in several architecture subdirectories
> (I'm aware of x86, arm64, and with these patches arm[32] and I would be
> surprised if there weren't more) doing largely the same setup of special
> mappings at randomized offsets, checking ELF magic etc. Not that these patches
> should necessarily do it, but is there a reasonable amount of consolidation
> that could be done, or am I underestimating how much of this really does vary
> per architecture?
>

There's certainly code that could be consolidated, but it would be a
decently large project.

Some day, I'd like to see everyone use vdso2c, but it needs to stop
knowing that it's targetting x86 for that to happen.

--Andy