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Message-ID: <176202645332.2601451.6136571013776972802.tip-bot2@tip-bot2>
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2025 19:47:33 -0000
From: tip-bot2 for Thomas Weißschuh <tip-bot2@...utronix.de>
To: linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc: thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
 Andreas Larsson <andreas@...sler.com>, x86@...nel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [tip: timers/vdso] sparc64: vdso2c: Drop sym_vvar_start handling

The following commit has been merged into the timers/vdso branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     38ddacdeafdb3a0a08632887ec63a5cedf87529f
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/38ddacdeafdb3a0a08632887ec63a5cedf87529f
Author:        Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
AuthorDate:    Tue, 14 Oct 2025 08:49:18 +02:00
Committer:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CommitterDate: Sat, 01 Nov 2025 20:44:08 +01:00

sparc64: vdso2c: Drop sym_vvar_start handling

After the adoption of the generic vDSO library this symbol does not exist.

The alignment invariant is now guaranteed by the generic code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Tested-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@...sler.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@...sler.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@...sler.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251014-vdso-sparc64-generic-2-v4-32-e0607bf49dea@linutronix.de
---
 arch/sparc/include/asm/vdso.h | 2 --
 arch/sparc/vdso/vdso2c.c      | 6 ------
 arch/sparc/vdso/vdso2c.h      | 4 ----
 3 files changed, 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/vdso.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/vdso.h
index 59e79d3..f08562d 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/vdso.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/vdso.h
@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@
 struct vdso_image {
 	void *data;
 	unsigned long size;   /* Always a multiple of PAGE_SIZE */
-
-	long sym_vvar_start;  /* Negative offset to the vvar area */
 };
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SPARC64
diff --git a/arch/sparc/vdso/vdso2c.c b/arch/sparc/vdso/vdso2c.c
index b97af5e..70b14a4 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/vdso/vdso2c.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/vdso/vdso2c.c
@@ -58,18 +58,12 @@
 
 const char *outfilename;
 
-/* Symbols that we need in vdso2c. */
-enum {
-	sym_vvar_start,
-};
-
 struct vdso_sym {
 	const char *name;
 	int export;
 };
 
 struct vdso_sym required_syms[] = {
-	[sym_vvar_start] = {"vvar_start", 1},
 };
 
 __attribute__((format(printf, 1, 2))) __attribute__((noreturn))
diff --git a/arch/sparc/vdso/vdso2c.h b/arch/sparc/vdso/vdso2c.h
index 60d69ac..ba07946 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/vdso/vdso2c.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/vdso/vdso2c.h
@@ -104,10 +104,6 @@ static void BITSFUNC(go)(void *raw_addr, size_t raw_len,
 		}
 	}
 
-	/* Validate mapping addresses. */
-	if (syms[sym_vvar_start] % 8192)
-		fail("vvar_begin must be a multiple of 8192\n");
-
 	if (!name) {
 		fwrite(stripped_addr, stripped_len, 1, outfile);
 		return;