Re: [PATCH] powerpc/vdso: Provide clock_getres_time64()

Thomas Weißschuh
2026-01-22T09:51:00Z

Hi Alexander,

On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 09:39:09AM +0000, Sverdlin, Alexander wrote:
> Hi Thomas, Christophe,
>
> On Wed, 2026-01-14 at 08:26 +0100, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > For consistency with __vdso_clock_gettime64() there should also be a
> > 64-bit variant of clock_getres(). This will allow the extension of
> > CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME to the vDSO and finally the removal of 32-bit
> > time types from the kernel and UAPI.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
>
> I've bisected this patch to cause the following build failure on my side:
>
> LDS arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vdso32.lds
> VDSO32A arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/sigtramp32-32.o
> VDSO32A arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday-32.o
> VDSO32A arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/datapage-32.o
> VDSO32A arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/cacheflush-32.o
> VDSO32A arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/note-32.o
> VDSO32A arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/getcpu-32.o
> VDSO32A arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/getrandom-32.o
> VDSO32A arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vgetrandom-chacha-32.o
> VDSO32C arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vgettimeofday-32.o
> VDSO32C arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vgetrandom-32.o
> VDSO32A arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/crtsavres-32.o
> VDSO32L arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vdso32.so.dbg
> arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vdso32.so.dbg: dynamic relocations are not supported
> make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/Makefile:79: arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vdso32.so.dbg] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/Makefile:388: vdso_prepare] Error 2

Thanks for the report!

> Does it ring any bells? What could I try/test?

Not immediately, but I'll look into it.

> I'm using gcc-15.2.0 and binutils 2.45.1.

Is this a toolchain from https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/ ?
Could you also share your configuration?

> > ---
> > Based on tip/timers/vdso.
> >
> > This was missed in the original vdso_getres_time64() series as powerpc
> > does not use include/vdso/gettime.h.
> > ---
> > arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h | 2 ++
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S | 12 ++++++++++++
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vdso32.lds.S | 1 +
> > arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vgettimeofday.c | 6 ++++++
> > 4 files changed, 21 insertions(+)

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