The offset of the vdso_data only has historic reasons, as back then
other vvars also existed and offset 0 was already used.
(See commit 8c49d9a74bac ("x86-64: Clean up vdso/kernel shared variables"))
Over time most other vvars got removed and offset 0 is free again.Moving vdso_data to the beginning of the vvar page aligns x86 with other architectures and opens up the way for the removal of the custom x86 vvar machinery. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <[email protected]> --- arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h index 9d9af37f7cab9e3e6159c0b758e500ddcfc6b3e8..01e60e0f671e9625669dc8fdacf3cdddf8cbf4fb 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ extern char __vvar_page; /* DECLARE_VVAR(offset, type, name) */ -DECLARE_VVAR(128, struct vdso_data, _vdso_data) +DECLARE_VVAR(0, struct vdso_data, _vdso_data) #if !defined(_SINGLE_DATA) #define _SINGLE_DATA -- 2.47.0
