[PATCH v4 00/12] arm+arm64: vdso unification to lib/vdso/

[Will Deacon]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 06:04:19PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> On 10/31/2017 02:30 PM, Mark Salyzyn wrote:
> > Take an effort to recode the arm64 vdso code from assembler to C
> > previously submitted by Andrew Pinski <apinski at cavium.com>, rework
> > it for use in both arm and arm64, overlapping any optimizations
> > for each architecture. But instead of landing it in arm64, land the
> > result into lib/vdso and unify both implementations to simplify
> > future maintenance. This will act as the basis for implementing
> > arm64 vdso32 in the future.
> 
> In the original patch series, our QE folks found a problem that lead to
> its revertion from our internal trees. I've pinged them to check this
> latest version and followup if we see the same failures now.

Could you elaborate a bit on the problem you found, please? Even if you
don't see it with this series, it doesn't mean it isn't lurking somewhere
else (potentially even in mainline!).

Will