From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] random: vDSO: Don't use PAGE_SIZE and PAGE_MASK
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 10:23:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zs2NFjfBKKjfoI2d@zx2c4.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55a7d3ba-b384-4fb0-8fbb-e05ddf0d1fb8@csgroup.eu>
On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 10:16:18AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> tglx or yourself suggested to put in a one of the vdso headers instead
> of directly in getrandom.c. This is too fragile because PAGE_SIZE might
> be absent in that header but arrive in getrandom.c through another header.
Oh jeeze, yea.
FYI, _PAGE_SIZE is defined on s390, so that might not be such a good
idea (from the previous version).
> The best would be to have an asm-generic definition of
> PAGE_SIZE and PAGE_MASK that all architectures use, but that's another
> level of work.
Yea that seems far too large of an operation to do here.
> > I'm really not a fan of making the code less idiomatic...
>
> Ok, I have another idea, let's give it a try.
What's the other idea?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-08-27 8:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-08-27 7:31 [PATCH 0/4] Fixups for random vDSO Christophe Leroy
2024-08-27 7:31 ` [PATCH 1/4] asm-generic/unaligned.h: Extract common header for vDSO Christophe Leroy
2024-08-27 7:31 ` [PATCH 2/4] random: vDSO: Don't use PAGE_SIZE and PAGE_MASK Christophe Leroy
2024-08-27 7:49 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-08-27 8:16 ` Christophe Leroy
2024-08-27 8:23 ` Jason A. Donenfeld [this message]
2024-08-27 8:26 ` [PATCH] random: vDSO: Redefine " Christophe Leroy
2024-08-27 8:40 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-08-27 8:55 ` Christophe Leroy
2024-08-27 9:59 ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-08-27 10:49 ` Christophe Leroy
2024-08-27 16:05 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2024-08-27 17:14 ` Christophe Leroy
2024-08-29 12:01 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2024-08-29 15:00 ` Christophe Leroy
2024-08-29 15:34 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2024-08-27 17:38 ` LEROY Christophe
2024-08-29 14:07 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2024-08-27 7:31 ` [PATCH 3/4] random: vDSO: Clean header inclusion in getrandom Christophe Leroy
2024-08-27 7:31 ` [PATCH 4/4] random: vDSO: don't use 64 bits atomics on 32 bits architectures Christophe Leroy
2024-08-27 8:03 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
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