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From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v9 4/6] ARM: add vdso user-space code
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:47:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140910164755.GC1710@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1408744351-7814-5-git-send-email-nathan_lynch@mentor.com>

Hi Nathan,

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 10:52:29PM +0100, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> Place vdso-related user-space code in arch/arm/kernel/vdso/.
> 
> It is almost completely written in C with some assembly helpers to
> load the data page address, sample the counter, and fall back to
> system calls when necessary.

I'm still a bit puzzled as to how we can implement a compat version of this
for a 32-bit userspace running under a 64-bit kernel. Maybe the answer is
that we don't care enough (programs will still work fine without it), but if
we did want to then we're going to need to build the kernel with two
toolchains and it gets really horrible.

Do you have any ideas?

Will

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-10 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-22 21:52 [PATCH v9 0/6] ARM: VDSO Nathan Lynch
2014-08-22 21:52 ` [PATCH v9 1/6] ARM: use _install_special_mapping for sigpage Nathan Lynch
2014-08-22 21:52 ` [PATCH v9 2/6] ARM: place sigpage at a random offset above stack Nathan Lynch
2014-08-22 21:52 ` [PATCH v9 3/6] ARM: miscellaneous vdso infrastructure, preparation Nathan Lynch
2014-08-22 21:52 ` [PATCH v9 4/6] ARM: add vdso user-space code Nathan Lynch
2014-09-10 16:47   ` Will Deacon [this message]
2014-09-10 16:52     ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-10 17:10       ` Will Deacon
2014-09-10 17:25         ` Nathan Lynch
2014-09-12  6:50     ` Nathan Lynch
2014-08-22 21:52 ` [PATCH v9 5/6] ARM: vdso initialization, mapping, and synchronization Nathan Lynch
2014-08-22 21:52 ` [PATCH v9 6/6] ARM: add CONFIG_VDSO Kconfig and Makefile bits Nathan Lynch
2014-08-27 20:49 ` [PATCH v9 0/6] ARM: VDSO Christopher Covington
2014-08-27 21:42   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-03  5:41   ` Nathan Lynch
2014-09-03 13:13     ` Christopher Covington
2014-09-03 16:59     ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-03 20:03       ` Nathan Lynch
2014-09-03 20:12         ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-06  2:32 ` Nathan Lynch

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