Re: [PATCH v2 02/17] vdso: Clean header inclusion in getrandom

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Mon, Aug 26 2024 at 12:45, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Le 26/08/2024 à 10:58, Jason A. Donenfeld a écrit :
>> On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 10:37:49AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Le 26/08/2024 à 10:07, Jason A. Donenfeld a écrit :
>>>> On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 09:13:10AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>>>>>    
>>>>> +#define _PAGE_SIZE (1UL << CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT)
>>>>> +#define _PAGE_MASK (~(_PAGE_SIZE - 1))
>>>>
>>>> If PAGE_SIZE isn't defined at this point, why not just call it PAGE_SIZE
>>>> instead of _PAGE_SIZE? But if that's the case, why not put the vdso
>>>> definition of PAGE_SIZE into some vdso header included by this file?
>>>
>>> It was working ok on powerpc but on x86 I got:
>> 
>> Seems like there might be some more fiddling to do, then? Or did you
>> conclude it's impossible?
>
> Maybe someone who knows x86 in details could helps but after a first 
> look I gave up because it looks very x86 specific, indeed that's 
> x86/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h that pulls several x86/asm/ headers , and 
> the same type of issue might arise for any new architecture coming in.

Of course :)

> For me it looked cleaner to just do as commit cffaefd15a8f ("vdso: Use 
> CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT in vdso/datapage.h") and not use PAGE_SIZE at all. But 
> I didn't want to directly use (1UL << CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT) and (~(1UL << 
> (CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT - 1))) in the code directly hence the new macros with 
> a leading underscore to avoid any conflict with existing macros.

#ifndef PAGE_SIZE
# define
#endif

Perhaps?

Thanks,

        tglx