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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>,
	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] time: Add warning about imminent deprecation of CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 06:45:50 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1495485950.3092.161.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALAqxLV4AeGnxSjRqsN4Oge4+KHJ6gxm3oXM+uNEx6btuAc2wA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 2017-05-22 at 12:06 -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> So, long ago I talked w/ Paul Mackerras about the ppc vdso code, as
> ppc has some other legacy "userspace time" code that has to be
> maintained as well (I believe there's not code page, just data page
> that userspace pulls directly from).

Hrm... the ppc VDSO has a code page, userspace just calls
__kernel_clock_*

I don't know if anything still uses the direct mapped values, we should
enquire internally.

Cheers,
Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-22 21:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-12 18:24 [RFC][PATCH] time: Add warning about imminent deprecation of CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD John Stultz
2017-05-22  0:58 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-05-22 19:06   ` John Stultz
2017-05-22 20:45     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2017-05-24 13:31     ` Michael Ellerman
2017-05-25 12:03     ` Paul Mackerras
2017-05-27  3:58       ` John Stultz

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