Thread (55 messages) 55 messages, 8 authors, 2025-11-06

[PATCH v4 32/35] sparc64: vdso2c: Drop sym_vvar_start handling

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From: Thomas Weißschuh <hidden>
Date: 2025-10-14 06:49:32
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, linux-kselftest, linux-mips, linux-s390, lkml, loongarch, sparclinux
Subsystem: sparc + ultrasparc (sparc/sparc64), the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Andreas Larsson, Linus Torvalds

Revision v4 of 3 in this series; 3 review trailers (3 from subsystem maintainers).

Revisions (3)
  1. v3 [diff vs current]
  2. v4 current
  3. v5 [diff vs current]
After the adoption of the generic vDSO library this symbol does not exist.

The alignment invariant is now guaranteed by the generic code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <redacted>
Tested-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
---
 arch/sparc/include/asm/vdso.h | 2 --
 arch/sparc/vdso/vdso2c.c      | 6 ------
 arch/sparc/vdso/vdso2c.h      | 4 ----
 3 files changed, 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/vdso.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/vdso.h
index 59e79d35cd7384e2dd752e92d20bc599e38cb8b0..f08562d10215bd3e9a2d4eaa0aadc8400b40e256 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/vdso.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/vdso.h
@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@
 struct vdso_image {
 	void *data;
 	unsigned long size;   /* Always a multiple of PAGE_SIZE */
-
-	long sym_vvar_start;  /* Negative offset to the vvar area */
 };
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SPARC64
diff --git a/arch/sparc/vdso/vdso2c.c b/arch/sparc/vdso/vdso2c.c
index b97af5ec9f35c01f2a976b6213b1768b677ad231..70b14a436fe2297ab446f778ab0d43155c272421 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/vdso/vdso2c.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/vdso/vdso2c.c
@@ -58,18 +58,12 @@
 
 const char *outfilename;
 
-/* Symbols that we need in vdso2c. */
-enum {
-	sym_vvar_start,
-};
-
 struct vdso_sym {
 	const char *name;
 	int export;
 };
 
 struct vdso_sym required_syms[] = {
-	[sym_vvar_start] = {"vvar_start", 1},
 };
 
 __attribute__((format(printf, 1, 2))) __attribute__((noreturn))
diff --git a/arch/sparc/vdso/vdso2c.h b/arch/sparc/vdso/vdso2c.h
index 60d69acc748f2401156a730027fe34abfb9fb6bc..ba0794659eb5af53b8c86b24f3221a5d0b3f74ab 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/vdso/vdso2c.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/vdso/vdso2c.h
@@ -104,10 +104,6 @@ static void BITSFUNC(go)(void *raw_addr, size_t raw_len,
 		}
 	}
 
-	/* Validate mapping addresses. */
-	if (syms[sym_vvar_start] % 8192)
-		fail("vvar_begin must be a multiple of 8192\n");
-
 	if (!name) {
 		fwrite(stripped_addr, stripped_len, 1, outfile);
 		return;
-- 
2.51.0

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