[PATCH 07/28] arm: vdso: Remove assembly for datapage access

[Thomas Weißschuh]

vdso/datapage.h provides a hidden declaration for _vdso_data.
When using it the compiler will automatically generate PC-relative
accesses which avoids the need for a custom assembly-based accessor.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh at linutronix.de>
---
 arch/arm/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h |  4 +---
 arch/arm/vdso/Makefile                   |  2 +-
 arch/arm/vdso/datapage.S                 | 16 ----------------
 arch/arm/vdso/vdso.lds.S                 |  3 ++-
 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h
index 2134cbd5469feef020ef30494b667b93972f9fac..592d3d015ca7298b3bc35871387dbb3e7f819827 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h
@@ -15,8 +15,6 @@
 
 #define VDSO_HAS_CLOCK_GETRES		1
 
-extern struct vdso_data *__get_datapage(void);
-
 static __always_inline int gettimeofday_fallback(
 				struct __kernel_old_timeval *_tv,
 				struct timezone *_tz)
@@ -139,7 +137,7 @@ static __always_inline u64 __arch_get_hw_counter(int clock_mode,
 
 static __always_inline const struct vdso_data *__arch_get_vdso_data(void)
 {
-	return __get_datapage();
+	return _vdso_data;
 }
 
 #endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
diff --git a/arch/arm/vdso/Makefile b/arch/arm/vdso/Makefile
index 01067a2bc43b74cc3a4c071b4a0fbeb0933e9ff7..8a306bbec4a0c4d4b6580fe88187faf9f5422eed 100644
--- a/arch/arm/vdso/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/vdso/Makefile
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ include $(srctree)/lib/vdso/Makefile
 
 hostprogs := vdsomunge
 
-obj-vdso := vgettimeofday.o datapage.o note.o
+obj-vdso := vgettimeofday.o note.o
 
 # Build rules
 targets := $(obj-vdso) vdso.so vdso.so.dbg vdso.so.raw vdso.lds
diff --git a/arch/arm/vdso/datapage.S b/arch/arm/vdso/datapage.S
deleted file mode 100644
index 9cd73b725d9fb89c2b9bb1d1178cce705baff38b..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/arch/arm/vdso/datapage.S
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
-#include <linux/linkage.h>
-#include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
-
-	.align 2
-.L_vdso_data_ptr:
-	.long	_start - . - VDSO_DATA_SIZE
-
-ENTRY(__get_datapage)
-	.fnstart
-	adr	r0, .L_vdso_data_ptr
-	ldr	r1, [r0]
-	add	r0, r0, r1
-	bx	lr
-	.fnend
-ENDPROC(__get_datapage)
diff --git a/arch/arm/vdso/vdso.lds.S b/arch/arm/vdso/vdso.lds.S
index 165d1d2eb76b3cea9b054ffa8906afdffa0eae57..9bfa0f52923c851b6b9e96d4dbb51eb3d5d0960a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/vdso/vdso.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm/vdso/vdso.lds.S
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
  */
 
 #include <linux/const.h>
+#include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
 #include <asm/page.h>
 #include <asm/vdso.h>
 
@@ -19,7 +20,7 @@ OUTPUT_ARCH(arm)
 
 SECTIONS
 {
-	PROVIDE(_start = .);
+	PROVIDE(_vdso_data = . - VDSO_DATA_SIZE);
 
 	. = SIZEOF_HEADERS;
 

-- 
2.47.0