On 2025-09-17 16:00, Thomas Weißschuh wrote: > 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/[email protected]/ > > Tested on a Niagara T4 and QEMU. > > This has a semantic conflict with my series "vdso: Reject absolute > relocations during build". The last patch of this series expects all users > of the generic vDSO library to use the vdsocheck tool. > This is not the case (yet) for SPARC64. I do have the patches for the > integration, the specifics will depend on which series is applied first. > > Based on tip/timers/vdso. > > [0] > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <[email protected]> > --- > Changes in v3: > - Allocate vDSO data pages dynamically (and lots of preparations for that) > - Drop clock_getres() > - Fix 32bit clock_gettime() syscall fallback > - Link to v2: > https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] > > Changes in v2: > - Rebase on v6.17-rc1 > - Drop RFC state > - Fix typo in commit message > - Drop duplicate 'select GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL' > - Merge "sparc64: time: Remove architecture-specific clocksource data" into > the > main conversion patch. It violated the check in > __clocksource_register_scale() > - Link to v1: > https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] > > --- > Arnd Bergmann (1): > clocksource: remove ARCH_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA > > Thomas Weißschuh (35): > selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_correctness: Handle different tv_usec types > arm64: vDSO: getrandom: Explicitly include asm/alternative.h > arm64: vDSO: gettimeofday: Explicitly include vdso/clocksource.h > arm64: vDSO: compat_gettimeofday: Add explicit includes > ARM: vdso: gettimeofday: Add explicit includes > powerpc/vdso/gettimeofday: Explicitly include vdso/time32.h > powerpc/vdso: Explicitly include asm/cputable.h and asm/feature-fixups.h > LoongArch: vDSO: Explicitly include asm/vdso/vdso.h > MIPS: vdso: Add include guard to asm/vdso/vdso.h > MIPS: vdso: Explicitly include asm/vdso/vdso.h > random: vDSO: Add explicit includes > vdso/gettimeofday: Add explicit includes > vdso/helpers: Explicitly include vdso/processor.h > vdso/datapage: Remove inclusion of gettimeofday.h > vdso/datapage: Trim down unnecessary includes > random: vDSO: trim vDSO includes > random: vDSO: remove ifdeffery > random: vDSO: split out datapage update into helper functions > random: vDSO: only access vDSO datapage after random_init() > s390/time: Set up vDSO datapage later > vdso/datastore: Reduce scope of some variables in vvar_fault() > vdso/datastore: Drop inclusion of linux/mmap_lock.h > vdso/datastore: Map pages through struct page > vdso/datastore: Allocate data pages dynamically > 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() > clocksource: drop include of asm/clocksource.h from linux/clocksource.h > > arch/arm/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h | 2 + > arch/arm64/include/asm/vdso/compat_gettimeofday.h | 3 + > arch/arm64/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h | 2 + > arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vgetrandom.c | 2 + > arch/loongarch/kernel/process.c | 1 + > arch/loongarch/kernel/vdso.c | 1 + > arch/mips/include/asm/vdso/vdso.h | 5 + > arch/mips/kernel/vdso.c | 1 + > arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h | 1 + > arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso/processor.h | 3 + > arch/s390/kernel/time.c | 4 +- > arch/sparc/Kconfig | 3 +- > 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 | 184 ++++++++++ > 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 | 380 > ++------------------- > arch/sparc/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S | 26 +- > arch/sparc/vdso/vdso.lds.S | 2 - > arch/sparc/vdso/vdso2c.c | 24 -- > arch/sparc/vdso/vdso2c.h | 45 +-- > arch/sparc/vdso/vdso32/vdso32.lds.S | 4 +- > arch/sparc/vdso/vma.c | 274 +-------------- > drivers/char/random.c | 75 ++-- > include/linux/clocksource.h | 8 - > include/linux/vdso_datastore.h | 6 + > include/vdso/datapage.h | 23 +- > include/vdso/helpers.h | 1 + > init/main.c | 2 + > kernel/time/Kconfig | 4 - > lib/vdso/datastore.c | 73 ++-- > lib/vdso/getrandom.c | 3 + > lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c | 17 + > .../testing/selftests/vDSO/vdso_test_correctness.c | 8 +- > 44 files changed, 451 insertions(+), 997 deletions(-) > --- > base-commit: 5f84f6004e298bd41c9e4ed45c18447954b1dce6 > change-id: 20250722-vdso-sparc64-generic-2-25f2e058e92c
Tested-by: Andreas Larsson <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Andreas Larsson <[email protected]> Acked-by: Andreas Larsson <[email protected]> # arch/sparc Thanks, Andreas
