Re: [PATCH 15/22] arch: vdso: consolidate gettime prototypes

Arnd Bergmann
2023-11-08T19:37:40Z

On Wed, Nov 8, 2023, at 19:31, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Le 08/11/2023 à 13:58, Arnd Bergmann a écrit :

> powerpc has functions doing more or less the same, they are called
> __c_kernel_clock_gettime() and alike with their prototypes siting in
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h
>
> Should those prototypes be moved to include/vdso/gettime.h too and
> eventually renamed, or are they considered too powerpc specific ?

I don't actually know, my initial interpretation was that
these function names are part of the user ABI for the vdso,
but I never looked closely enough at how vdso works to
be sure what the actual ABI is.

If __c_kernel_clock_gettime() etc are not part of the user-facing
ABI, I think renaming them for consistency with the other
architectures would be best.

Arnd