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Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 14:22:12 -0700
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/vdso changes for v3.16
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 2:15 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> On 06/06/2014 02:13 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> The only real downside to that would be the chance of bitrot if that
>>> code isn't getting used on native builds.
>>
>> Sure. Does anybody really care?
>>
>> You could obviously just open-code the things, but the fact is,
>> "le64toh()" isn't exactly a standard function anyway, so now that I
>> see it needed I go "yeah, that's clearly completely unacceptable".
>>
>> I'd much rather say "screw cross-compiling" (because let's face it,
>> nobody sane cross-compiles x86 on anything else) than say "screw old
>> machines".
>>
>
> I'm thinking we should just carry the support functions with us, we
> already have some of those in tools/include. Working on a patchset for
> this.
Sounds good.
In the mean time, a trivial fix is here:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux.git/commit/?h=vdso/cleanup_fixes&id=cf780a0dc71f7cbd9a417e6ce2d5ddf56abccb74
(or it will be once the mirrors sync)
--Andy
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