Re: [RFC 1/5] powerpc: Rename context.vdso_base to context.vdso

From: Balbir Singh
Date: Sun May 01 2016 - 21:05:58 EST




On 29/04/16 01:18, Christopher Covington wrote:
> In order to share remap and unmap support for the VDSO with other
> architectures without duplicating the code, we need a common name and type
> for the address of the VDSO. An informal survey of the architectures
> indicates unsigned long vdso is popular. Change the variable name in
> powerpc from mm->context.vdso_base to simply mm->context.vdso.
>

Could you please provide additional details on why the remap/unmap operations are required?
This patch does rename, but should it abstract via a function acesss to vmap field using arch_* operations? Not sure

Balbir Singh