Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] x86_64,vsyscall: Rewrite comment and clean up headers in vsyscall code

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Nov 2014, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 29 Oct 2014, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> >
>> >> vsyscall_64.c is just vsyscall emulation.  Tidy it up accordingly.
>> >>
>> >> If my comment editing offends anyone, let me know and I can fix it.
>> >>
>> >> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >> ---
>> >>  arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c | 51 +++++++++++++++----------------------------
>> >>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
>> >> index 2d912629c96e..ee622f8183f3 100644
>> >> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
>> >> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
>> >> @@ -1,52 +1,37 @@
>> >>  /*
>> >> - *  Copyright (C) 2001 Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@xxxxxxx> SuSE
>> >> - *  Copyright 2003 Andi Kleen, SuSE Labs.
>> >> + * Mostly copyright (c) 2012-2014 Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >
>> > We usualy leave the old copyright notices around even if the code
>> > which is related to them has been removed more or less completely.
>> >
>> > So I change this to:
>> >
>> > /*
>> >  * Copyright (c) 2012-2014 Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >  *
>> >  * Based on the original implementation:
>> >  *  Copyright (C) 2001 Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@xxxxxxx> SuSE
>> >  *  Copyright 2003 Andi Kleen, SuSE Labs.
>> >
>> > and apply the whole lot.
>>
>> Would it make more sense to move those copyright notices to
>> arch/x86/vdso/vma.c?  That's where most of the code ended up.
>
> That has already a notice from Andi and I cant figure out what parts
> of that have been written by Andrea. We'll worry about that when we
> remove vsyscall_64.c. Until then the git history will be our friend.

Works for me.

--Andy
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