Re: [PATCH v5 00/34] sparc64: vdso: Switch to the generic vDSO library
From: Mark Brown
Date: Thu Nov 06 2025 - 09:02:27 EST
On Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 11:01:53AM +0100, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> The generic vDSO provides a lot common functionality shared between
> different architectures. SPARC is the last architecture not using it,
> preventing some necessary code cleanup.
>
> Make use of the generic infrastructure.
> ---
> Changes in v5:
> - Merge the patches for 'struct page' mapping and dynamic allocation
> - Zero out newly-allocated data pages
> - Pick up review tags
> - Link to v4: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251014-vdso-sparc64-generic-2-v4-0-e0607bf49dea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
I've validated that the zeroing fixes the issues we were seeing with
boot failures on a reasonable chunk of the arm64 platforms:
Tested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
I didn't get to all of them but I'd expect the rest are also fine.
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