Re: [PATCH 3/4] s390/vdso: Trim includes in linker script

From: Arnd Bergmann

Date: Fri Jan 16 2026 - 02:45:25 EST


On Fri, Jan 16, 2026, at 08:40, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> Some of the included files are unnecessary or too broad.
>
> This is a preparation for a new validation step to validate the
> consistency of __BITS_PER_LONG. vdso.lds.S may be preprocessed with a
> 32-bit compiler, but __BITS_PER_LONG is always 64.
>
> Trim the includes to the necessary ones.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

It's certainly a good idea to limit the use of asm/page.h and the
other headers here.

> There are other ways to solve this issue, for example using
> KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -m64.

I think we should probably do that as well, especially since my
kernel.org cross-compilers still default to a 32-bit s390 target
for historic reasons, but the kernel no longer supports 32-bit
userland.

Arnd