[RFC/PATCH] ARM: VDSO support

Adhemerval Zanella adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
Tue Apr 7 17:06:00 GMT 2015


On 07-04-2015 13:46, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Apr 2015, Nathan Lynch wrote:
>
>> This patch adds support for the ARM VDSO to glibc.  I have run make
>> check on OMAP5 using kernels with and without the VDSO, with no new
>> failures.
> How does this compare to the implementations for other architectures?  
> What are the points on which the VDSO interfaces vary between 
> architectures?  It would seem desirable for the code to be factored so 
> that the ARM code only contains the minimal set of things that are 
> necessarily ARM-specific (for example, just declaring the ARM-specific 
> choices before including architecture-independent files shared by all 
> architectures that can get these functions from a VDSO).
>
I see the factoring work being another subsequent patch that should not
impede the inclusion of proposed modification. 



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