Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: vdso32: add CONFIG_THUMB2_COMPAT_VDSO

[Catalin Marinas]

On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 01:57:08PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index 7f9d38444d6d..fe9e6b231cac 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -1299,6 +1299,14 @@ config COMPAT_VDSO
>  	  You must have a 32-bit build of glibc 2.22 or later for programs
>  	  to seamlessly take advantage of this.
>  
> +config THUMB2_COMPAT_VDSO
> +	bool "Compile the vDSO in THUMB2 mode"
> +	depends on COMPAT_VDSO
> +	default y
> +	help
> +	  Compile the compat vDSO with -mthumb -fomit-frame-pointer if y, otherwise
> +	  as -marm.

Now that we understood the issue (I think), do we actually need this
choice? Why not going for -mthumb -fomit-frame-pointer always for the
compat vdso?

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Catalin