On 11/9/18, Vincenzo Frascino [off-list ref] wrote:

In the last few years we assisted to an explosion of vdso
implementations that mostly share similar code.

This patch tries to unify the gettimeofday vdso implementation
introducing lib/vdso. The code contained in this library can
ideally be reused by all the architectures avoiding, where
possible, code duplication.

In doing so, tries to maintain the performances using inlining as much
as possible and consequently reduces the surface for ROP type of attacks.

Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>

I just noticed that this new version misses some of the cleanups
that Thomas recently did in the x86 version, e.g. f3e839384164
("x86/vdso: Replace the clockid switch case").

I haven't looked at all the details, but I'd suggest using the latest
x86 code as a base.

        Arnd