From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc vdso updates
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 16:30:26 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1149921026.12687.112.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060610031543.GH23891@krispykreme>
On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 13:15 +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> > This patch cleans up some locking & error handling in the ppc vdso and
> > moves the vdso base pointer from the thread struct to the mm context
> > where it more logically belongs. It brings the powerpc implementation
> > closer to Ingo's new x86 one and also adds an arch_vma_name() function
> > allowing to print [vsdo] in /proc/<pid>/maps if Ingo's x86 vdso patch is
> > also applied.
>
> Im getting this on the current powerpc git tree:
>
> arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c: In function 'handle_rt_signal':
> arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c:763: error: request for member
> 'vdso_base' in something not a structure or union
>
> It looks like we use the mm_context_t definition in asm-ppc/mmu.h for
> 32bit ARCH=powerpc builds and need vdso_base there too.
Yes, I have a patch almost ready for that.
Ben.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-10 6:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-30 3:51 [PATCH] powerpc vdso updates Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-05-30 6:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-05-30 7:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-06-10 3:15 ` Anton Blanchard
2006-06-10 6:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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