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- Consolidate the VDSO storage
The VDSO data storage and data layout has been largely architecture
specific for historical reasons. That increases the maintenance effort
and causes inconsistencies over and over.
There is no real technical reason for architecture specific layouts and
implementations. The architecture specific details can easily be
integrated into a generic layout, which also reduces the amount of
duplicated code for managing the mappings.
Convert all architectures over to a unified layout and common mapping
infrastructure. This splits the VDSO data layout into subsystem
specific blocks, timekeeping, random and architecture parts, which
provides a better structure and allows to improve and update the
functionalities without conflict and interaction.
- Rework the timekeeping data storage
The current implementation is designed for exposing system timekeeping
accessors, which was good enough at the time when it was designed.
PTP and Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) change that as there are
requirements to expose independent PTP clocks, which are not related to
system timekeeping.
Replace the monolithic data storage by a structured layout, which
allows to add support for independent PTP clocks on top while reusing
both the data structures and the time accessor implementations.
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Merge tag 'timers-vdso-2025-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull VDSO infrastructure updates from Thomas Gleixner:
- Consolidate the VDSO storage
The VDSO data storage and data layout has been largely architecture
specific for historical reasons. That increases the maintenance
effort and causes inconsistencies over and over.
There is no real technical reason for architecture specific layouts
and implementations. The architecture specific details can easily be
integrated into a generic layout, which also reduces the amount of
duplicated code for managing the mappings.
Convert all architectures over to a unified layout and common mapping
infrastructure. This splits the VDSO data layout into subsystem
specific blocks, timekeeping, random and architecture parts, which
provides a better structure and allows to improve and update the
functionalities without conflict and interaction.
- Rework the timekeeping data storage
The current implementation is designed for exposing system
timekeeping accessors, which was good enough at the time when it was
designed.
PTP and Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) change that as there are
requirements to expose independent PTP clocks, which are not related
to system timekeeping.
Replace the monolithic data storage by a structured layout, which
allows to add support for independent PTP clocks on top while reusing
both the data structures and the time accessor implementations.
* tag 'timers-vdso-2025-03-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (55 commits)
sparc/vdso: Always reject undefined references during linking
x86/vdso: Always reject undefined references during linking
vdso: Rework struct vdso_time_data and introduce struct vdso_clock
vdso: Move architecture related data before basetime data
powerpc/vdso: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
arm64/vdso: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
x86/vdso: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
time/namespace: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/namespace: Rename timens_setup_vdso_data() to reflect new vdso_clock struct
vdso/vsyscall: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare helper functions for introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_coarse_timens() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_coarse() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_hres_timens() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare do_hres() for introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/gettimeofday: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/helpers: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock
vdso/datapage: Define vdso_clock to prepare for multiple PTP clocks
vdso: Make vdso_time_data cacheline aligned
arm64: Make asm/cache.h compatible with vDSO
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