The generic vDSO provides a lot common functionality shared between different architectures. SPARC is the last architecture not using it, preventing some necessary code cleanup.
Make use of the generic infrastructure.
Follow-up to and replacement for Arnd's SPARC vDSO removal patches: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250707144726.4008707-1-arnd@kernel.org/
Only tested on QEMU. Based von v6.16-rc1. Marked as RFC for testing and review only. Will be properly resubmitted after v6.17-rc1.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de --- Arnd Bergmann (1): clocksource: remove ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA
Thomas Weißschuh (13): vdso: add struct __kernel_old_timeval forward declaration to gettime.h sparc64: time: Remove architecture-specific clocksource data sparc64: vdso: Link with -z noexecstack sparc64: vdso: Remove obsolete "fake section table" reservation sparc64: vdso: Replace code patching with runtime conditional sparc64: vdso: Move hardware counter read into header sparc64: vdso: Move syscall fallbacks into header sparc64: vdso: Introduce vdso/processor.h sparc64: vdso: Switch to the generic vDSO library sparc64: vdso2c: Drop sym_vvar_start handling sparc64: vdso2c: Remove symbol handling sparc64: vdso: Implement clock_gettime64() sparc64: vdso: Implement clock_getres()
arch/sparc/Kconfig | 5 +- arch/sparc/include/asm/clocksource.h | 9 - arch/sparc/include/asm/processor.h | 3 + arch/sparc/include/asm/processor_32.h | 2 - arch/sparc/include/asm/processor_64.h | 25 -- arch/sparc/include/asm/vdso.h | 2 - arch/sparc/include/asm/vdso/clocksource.h | 10 + arch/sparc/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h | 208 ++++++++++++++++ arch/sparc/include/asm/vdso/processor.h | 41 ++++ arch/sparc/include/asm/vdso/vsyscall.h | 10 + arch/sparc/include/asm/vvar.h | 75 ------ arch/sparc/kernel/Makefile | 1 - arch/sparc/kernel/time_64.c | 6 +- arch/sparc/kernel/vdso.c | 69 ------ arch/sparc/vdso/Makefile | 8 +- arch/sparc/vdso/vclock_gettime.c | 382 +++-------------------------- arch/sparc/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S | 26 +- arch/sparc/vdso/vdso.lds.S | 4 +- arch/sparc/vdso/vdso2c.c | 24 -- arch/sparc/vdso/vdso2c.h | 45 +--- arch/sparc/vdso/vdso32/vdso32.lds.S | 6 +- arch/sparc/vdso/vma.c | 274 ++------------------- include/linux/clocksource.h | 6 +- include/vdso/gettime.h | 1 + kernel/time/Kconfig | 4 - 25 files changed, 344 insertions(+), 902 deletions(-) --- base-commit: eaa6313d2ceb2a3f1c870866621058ad6081f028 change-id: 20250722-vdso-sparc64-generic-2-25f2e058e92c
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