Re: [GIT PULL] x86/vdso changes for v3.16

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 2:15 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 06/06/2014 02:13 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> The only real downside to that would be the chance of bitrot if that
>>> code isn't getting used on native builds.
>>
>> Sure. Does anybody really care?
>>
>> You could obviously just open-code the things, but the fact is,
>> "le64toh()" isn't exactly a standard function anyway, so now that I
>> see it needed I go "yeah, that's clearly completely unacceptable".
>>
>> I'd much rather say "screw cross-compiling" (because let's face it,
>> nobody sane cross-compiles x86 on anything else) than say "screw old
>> machines".
>>
>
> I'm thinking we should just carry the support functions with us, we
> already have some of those in tools/include.  Working on a patchset for
> this.

Sounds good.

In the mean time, a trivial fix is here:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux.git/commit/?h=vdso/cleanup_fixes&id=cf780a0dc71f7cbd9a417e6ce2d5ddf56abccb74

(or it will be once the mirrors sync)

--Andy
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