From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: luto@kernel.org, Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
andi@firstfloor.org, Dmitry Golovin <dima@golovin.in>,
Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>, Rui Ueyama <ruiu@google.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, x86@kernel.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
rafael@espindo.la, Stephen Hines <srhines@google.com>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/vdso: drop implicit common-page-size linker flag
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2018 18:52:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181207175253.GE9385@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKwvOd=75MRjaDbEjHRaMTm1MSC1wkLxPKhH_S3KXreP8yU9Uw@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 09:45:42AM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> Google's Native Client, a technology for running native code in a web
> browser. It's since been superseded by Portable Native Client (pNaCl)
> and to an extent Web Assembly. It seems that BFD still contains code
> for NaCl.
Yeah, found the wikipedia page. :)
> How does this sound:
> TL;DR
> -z common-page-size's default value is based on the target
> architecture. arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile sets it to the
> architecture default, which is implicit and redundant. Drop it.
Sure. Although the longer explanation gives more insight into the whole
deal but that's fine too - the longer explanation is on the ML and we
have the Link: tags.
So no need to resend - I'll simply take the three-liner above.
Thx.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-07 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-06 19:12 [PATCH] x86/vdso: drop implicit common-page-size linker flag ndesaulniers
2018-12-06 20:29 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-12-07 10:18 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-12-07 17:45 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-12-07 17:52 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2018-12-07 18:00 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-12-07 18:33 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86/vdso: Drop " tip-bot for Nick Desaulniers
2018-12-11 13:12 ` [tip:x86/build] x86/um/vdso: " tip-bot for ndesaulniers@google.com
2018-12-11 17:39 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-12-11 17:43 ` Richard Weinberger
2018-12-11 17:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-12-11 17:53 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-12-11 18:05 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-12-11 19:08 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-12-11 20:14 ` Richard Weinberger
2018-12-11 20:53 ` Borislav Petkov
2018-12-11 13:25 ` tip-bot for Nick Desaulniers
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