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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: "Thomas Weißschuh" <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>,
	"Huacai Chen" <chenhuacai@kernel.org>,
	"WANG Xuerui" <kernel@xen0n.name>,
	"Heiko Carstens" <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
	"Vasily Gorbik" <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
	"Alexander Gordeev" <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
	"Christian Borntraeger" <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>,
	"Sven Schnelle" <svens@linux.ibm.com>,
	"Andy Lutomirski" <luto@kernel.org>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"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>,
	"Richard Weinberger" <richard@nod.at>,
	"Anton Ivanov" <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>,
	"Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	"Vincenzo Frascino" <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>,
	"Shuah Khan" <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: loongarch@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-um@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] vdso: Remove struct getcpu_cache
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 07:06:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e95dc212-6fd3-43e3-aeb7-bf55917e0cd4@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251013-getcpu_cache-v2-1-880fbfa3b7cc@linutronix.de>

On 10/13/25 02:20, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> -int __vdso_getcpu(unsigned int *cpu, unsigned int *node, struct getcpu_cache *unused);
> -int __vdso_getcpu(unsigned int *cpu, unsigned int *node, struct getcpu_cache *unused)
> +int __vdso_getcpu(unsigned int *cpu, unsigned int *node, void *unused);
> +int __vdso_getcpu(unsigned int *cpu, unsigned int *node, void *unused)
>  {
>  	int cpu_id;

It would ideally be nice to have a _bit_ more history on this about
how it became unused any why there is such high confidence that
userspace never tries to use it.

Let's say someone comes along in a few years and wants to use this
'unused' parameter. Could they?


  reply	other threads:[~2025-10-13 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-10-13  9:20 [PATCH v2] vdso: Remove struct getcpu_cache Thomas Weißschuh
2025-10-13 14:06 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2025-10-13 16:14   ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-10-13 17:14   ` Andy Lutomirski
2025-10-13 19:44     ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-10-13 20:32       ` Andy Lutomirski
2025-10-13 21:09         ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-10-14  8:56     ` Florian Weimer

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