[PATCH 00/28] vdso: Preparations for generic data storage

Thomas Gleixner tglx at linutronix.de
Wed Oct 30 04:39:45 PDT 2024


Folks!

On Thu, Oct 10 2024 at 09:01, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> Historically each architecture defined their own datapage to store the
> VDSO data. This stands in contrast to the generic nature of the VDSO
> code itself.
> We plan to introduce a generic framework for the management of the VDSO
> data storage that can be used by all architectures and which works
> together with the existing generic VDSO code.
>
> Before that is possible align the different architectures by
> standardizing on the existing generic infrastructure and moving things
> out of the VDSO data page which does not belong there.
>
> Patches	 1- 2:	csky
> Patch	    3:	s390
> Patches	 4- 5:	arm64
> Patch	    6:	riscv
> Patch	    7:	arm
> Patch	    8:	LoongArch
> Patch	    9:	MIPS
> Patches 10-20:	x86
> Patches 21-27:	powerpc
> Patch      28: 	Renamings to avoid a name clash with the new code.

As this has been sitting for two weeks now without major comments, I'm
planning to merge that through the tip tree tomorrow.

Thanks,

        tglx



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