Re: [PATCH v3] vdso: Remove struct getcpu_cache

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2025, at 08:08, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> The cache parameter of getcpu() is useless nowadays for various reasons.
> * It is never passed by userspace for either the vDSO or syscalls.
> * It is never used by the kernel.
> * It could not be made to work on the current vDSO architecture.
> * The structure definition is not part of the UAPI headers.
> * vdso_getcpu() is superseded by restartable sequences in any case.
>
> Remove the struct and its header.
>
> As a side-effect we get rid of an unwanted inclusion of the linux/
> header namespace from vDSO code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>