Re: [PATCH 00/15] vdso: Clean up the vsyscall.h headers

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Thomas Weißschuh, 2026-09-09
Hello:

This series was applied to riscv/linux.git (fixes)
by Thomas Gleixner [off-list ref]:

On Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:51:13 +0200 you wrote:
The vsyscall.h headers are a mess. Some of that was necessary back when
some architectures where not using the generic vDSO infrastructure.
Now that this is not necessary anymore, the headers can be cleaned up
and many of the can be deleted altogether.

The recipient list is trimmed to only the vDSO maintainers and the
architecture lists.

[...]
Here is the summary with links:
  - [01/15] vdso: Move the kernel-side time update helpers to a new header
    https://git.kernel.org/riscv/c/35f0a96848a7
  - [02/15] vdso/gettimeofday: Define fallback __arch_get_vdso_u_time_data() in gettimeofday.c
    https://git.kernel.org/riscv/c/4fba7bb3e73a
  - [03/15] vdso/getrandom: Define fallback __arch_get_vdso_u_rng_data() in getrandom.c
    https://git.kernel.org/riscv/c/ca0da001d3cf
  - [04/15] vdso/vsyscall: Define fallback time synchronization functions in vsyscall.c
    https://git.kernel.org/riscv/c/e4eeeaa14d8d
  - [05/15] vdso: Delete asm-generic/vdso/vsyscall.h
    https://git.kernel.org/riscv/c/8579b901d150
  - [06/15] x86/vdso: Move vDSO page definitions to asm/vdso.h
    https://git.kernel.org/riscv/c/8051a0f482e6
  - [07/15] sparc/vdso: Move __VDSO_PAGES to asm/vdso.h
    https://git.kernel.org/riscv/c/782478555fc6
  - [08/15] s390/vdso: Delete asm/vdso/vsyscall.h inclusions
    https://git.kernel.org/riscv/c/d5b1dadd2ef0
  - [09/15] sparc/vdso: Delete asm/vdso/vsyscall.h inclusion
    https://git.kernel.org/riscv/c/cc729f844815
  - [10/15] x86/vdso: Delete asm/vdso/vsyscall.h inclusions
    https://git.kernel.org/riscv/c/3086b69ee00f
  - [11/15] arm64/vdso: Delete asm/vdso/vsyscall.h inclusions
    https://git.kernel.org/riscv/c/128b1c7d3ac8
  - [12/15] riscv/hwprobe: Include vdso/datapage.h
    https://git.kernel.org/riscv/c/0d10af5db481
  - [13/15] vdso: Remove unnecessary vdso/vsyscall.h includes
    https://git.kernel.org/riscv/c/d6df494a0135
  - [14/15] vdso: Add asm-generic/vdso/vsyscall.h
    https://git.kernel.org/riscv/c/996b01393e93
  - [15/15] vdso: Remove __ASSEMBLER__ guards from vsyscall.h
    https://git.kernel.org/riscv/c/9e61cabcce2b

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