linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] arm: vdso: Rewrite gettimeofday to more closely match arm64 variant

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Message-ID: <59DE3A15.90800@arm.com>
Date:   Wed, 11 Oct 2017 16:34:45 +0100
From:   James Morse <james.morse@....com>
To:     Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@...roid.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] arm: vdso: Rewrite gettimeofday to more closely match
 arm64 variant

Hi Mark,

On 11/09/17 17:18, Mark Salyzyn wrote:
> Take an effort to recode the arm64 vdso code from assembler to C
> previously submitted by Andrew Pinski <apinski@...ium.com>, rework
> it for use in both arm and arm64, overlapping any optimizations
> for each architecture.
> 
> Side effects include renaming some vdso_datapage.h variables, adding
> a few more to enhance features and functionality to match.

There are quite a lot of different things going on here, all of which are
interleaved in this patch. Could you split them out into smaller simpler changes?

The bits I count are:
* Pulling 32bit specific eabi and fallback macro out into compiler.h,
* Adding support for __vdso_clock_getres,
* Flipping tk_is_cntvct's logic to become use_syscall,
* Variable renames to align 32/64 bit,

...are those 'coarse' versions of the timer calls being added, or just moved around?


Thanks,

James