[PATCH v4] arm64, ia64, ppc, s390, sh, tile, um, x86, mm: Remove default gate area

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Mon Jul 28 19:19:16 PDT 2014


On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 13:56 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> The core mm code will provide a default gate area based on
> FIXADDR_USER_START and FIXADDR_USER_END if
> !defined(__HAVE_ARCH_GATE_AREA) && defined(AT_SYSINFO_EHDR).
> 
> This default is only useful for ia64.  arm64, ppc, s390, sh, tile,
> 64-bit UML, and x86_32 have their own code just to disable it.  arm,
> 32-bit UML, and x86_64 have gate areas, but they have their own
> implementations.
> 
> This gets rid of the default and moves the code into ia64.
> 
> This should save some code on architectures without a gate area: it's
> now possible to inline the gate_area functions in the default case.

Looks good to me. Booted and everything seems happy, I still have a vdso etc.

Tested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> (for powerpc)

cheers





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