From: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail•com>
To: Christopher Covington <cov@codeaurora•org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm•com>,
criu@openvz•org, Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux•vnet.ibm.com>,
Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@arm•com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel•crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman•id.au>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org,
linux-arch@vger•kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack•org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/5] powerpc: Rename context.vdso_base to context.vdso
Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 11:05:25 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5726A7D5.7030305@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1461856737-17071-2-git-send-email-cov@codeaurora.org>
On 29/04/16 01:18, Christopher Covington wrote:
> In order to share remap and unmap support for the VDSO with other
> architectures without duplicating the code, we need a common name and type
> for the address of the VDSO. An informal survey of the architectures
> indicates unsigned long vdso is popular. Change the variable name in
> powerpc from mm->context.vdso_base to simply mm->context.vdso.
>
Could you please provide additional details on why the remap/unmap operations are required?
This patch does rename, but should it abstract via a function acesss to vmap field using arch_* operations? Not sure
Balbir Singh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-02 1:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20151202121918.GA4523@arm.com>
2016-04-28 15:18 ` VDSO unmap and remap support for additional architectures Christopher Covington
2016-04-28 15:18 ` [RFC 1/5] powerpc: Rename context.vdso_base to context.vdso Christopher Covington
2016-05-02 1:05 ` Balbir Singh [this message]
2016-05-04 21:21 ` Christopher Covington
2016-04-28 15:18 ` [RFC 2/5] mm/powerpc: Make VDSO unmap generic Christopher Covington
2016-04-28 15:18 ` [RFC 3/5] mm/powerpc: Make VDSO remap generic Christopher Covington
2016-04-28 15:18 ` [RFC 4/5] arm64: Use unsigned long for vdso Christopher Covington
2016-04-28 15:18 ` [RFC 5/5] arm64: Gain VDSO unmap and remap powers Christopher Covington
2016-04-28 18:53 ` VDSO unmap and remap support for additional architectures Andy Lutomirski
2016-04-29 13:22 ` Christopher Covington
2016-04-29 13:55 ` Dmitry Safonov
2016-05-03 21:37 ` Christopher Covington
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