linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/28] vdso: Preparations for generic data storage

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <871pzxzuny.ffs@tglx>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 12:39:45 +0100
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>, Guo
 Ren
 <guoren@...nel.org>, Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>, Vasily Gorbik
 <gor@...ux.ibm.com>, Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>, Christian
 Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>, Sven Schnelle
 <svens@...ux.ibm.com>, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>, Will
 Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>, Palmer
 Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>, Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>, Russell
 King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...nel.org>, WANG
 Xuerui <kernel@...0n.name>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, "Jason A.
 Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>, Thomas Bogendoerfer
 <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
 Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
 Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
 x86@...nel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Michael Ellerman
 <mpe@...erman.id.au>, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>, Christophe
 Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>, Naveen N Rao <naveen@...nel.org>,
 Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@...ux.ibm.com>, Vincenzo Frascino
 <vincenzo.frascino@....com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
 linux-csky@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
 linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, loongarch@...ts.linux.dev,
 linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, Thomas
 Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>, Nam Cao
 <namcao@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/28] vdso: Preparations for generic data storage

Folks!

On Thu, Oct 10 2024 at 09:01, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> Historically each architecture defined their own datapage to store the
> VDSO data. This stands in contrast to the generic nature of the VDSO
> code itself.
> We plan to introduce a generic framework for the management of the VDSO
> data storage that can be used by all architectures and which works
> together with the existing generic VDSO code.
>
> Before that is possible align the different architectures by
> standardizing on the existing generic infrastructure and moving things
> out of the VDSO data page which does not belong there.
>
> Patches	 1- 2:	csky
> Patch	    3:	s390
> Patches	 4- 5:	arm64
> Patch	    6:	riscv
> Patch	    7:	arm
> Patch	    8:	LoongArch
> Patch	    9:	MIPS
> Patches 10-20:	x86
> Patches 21-27:	powerpc
> Patch      28: 	Renamings to avoid a name clash with the new code.

As this has been sitting for two weeks now without major comments, I'm
planning to merge that through the tip tree tomorrow.

Thanks,

        tglx