linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v2 6/7] mm/powerpc: Use generic VDSO remap and unmap functions

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Date:   Mon, 7 Nov 2016 21:20:56 +0100
From:   Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Christopher Covington <cov@...eaurora.org>, criu@...nvz.org,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 6/7] mm/powerpc: Use generic VDSO remap and unmap
 functions

On 04/11/2016 05:59, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Christopher Covington <cov@...eaurora.org> writes:
> 
>> The PowerPC VDSO remap and unmap code was copied to a generic location,
>> only modifying the variable name expected in mm->context (vdso instead of
>> vdso_base) to match most other architectures. Having adopted this generic
>> naming, drop the code in arch/powerpc and use the generic version.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christopher Covington <cov@...eaurora.org>
>> ---
>>  arch/powerpc/Kconfig                     |  1 +
>>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/Kbuild          |  1 +
>>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/mm-arch-hooks.h | 28 -------------------------
>>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h   | 35 +-------------------------------
>>  4 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)
>>  delete mode 100644 arch/powerpc/include/asm/mm-arch-hooks.h
> 
> This looks OK.
> 
> Have you tested it on powerpc? I could but I don't know how to actually
> trigger these paths, I assume I need a CRIU setup?

FWIW, tested on ppc64le using a sample test process moving its VDSO and
then catching a signal on 4.9-rc4 and using CRIU on top of 4.8 with
sightly changes to due minor upstream changes.

Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>