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

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Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 15:04:31 +0100
From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
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 Nam Cao <namcao@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/28] vdso: Preparations for generic data storage

Le 30/10/2024 à 12:39, Thomas Gleixner a écrit :
> 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.

To avoid any future conflicts with powerpc tree, I suggest you merge 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git 
topic/vdso into your tree before applying this series.

Christophe