Re: [PATCH v3 10/12] arm64: vdso: replace gettimeofday.S with global vgettimeofday.C

2017-10-30 Thread Mark Rutland
Hi, On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 03:27:10PM -0700, Mark Salyzyn wrote: > +/* > + * AArch64 implementation of arch_counter_get_cntvct() suitable for vdso > + */ > +static __always_inline notrace u64 __arch_counter_get(void) Can we give the VDSO helpers some common prefix, e.g. use arch_vdso_* and call

Re: [PATCH v3 10/12] arm64: vdso: replace gettimeofday.S with global vgettimeofday.C

2017-10-30 Thread Mark Rutland
Hi, On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 03:27:10PM -0700, Mark Salyzyn wrote: > +/* > + * AArch64 implementation of arch_counter_get_cntvct() suitable for vdso > + */ > +static __always_inline notrace u64 __arch_counter_get(void) Can we give the VDSO helpers some common prefix, e.g. use arch_vdso_* and call

[PATCH v3 10/12] arm64: vdso: replace gettimeofday.S with global vgettimeofday.C

2017-10-27 Thread Mark Salyzyn
Take an effort represented in the previous 8 patches to recode the arm64 vdso code from assembler to C previously submitted by Andrew Pinski , rework it for use in both arm and arm64, overlapping any optimizations for each architecture. apin...@cavium.com makes the following

[PATCH v3 10/12] arm64: vdso: replace gettimeofday.S with global vgettimeofday.C

2017-10-27 Thread Mark Salyzyn
Take an effort represented in the previous 8 patches to recode the arm64 vdso code from assembler to C previously submitted by Andrew Pinski , rework it for use in both arm and arm64, overlapping any optimizations for each architecture. apin...@cavium.com makes the following claims in the