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Linus Torvalds 0352387523 First step of consolidating the VDSO data page handling:
The VDSO data page handling is architecture specific for historical
   reasons, but there is no real technical reason to do so.
 
   Aside of that VDSO data has become a dump ground for various mechanisms
   and fail to provide a clear separation of the functionalities.
 
   Clean this up by:
 
     * consolidating the VDSO page data by getting rid of architecture
       specific warts especially in x86 and PowerPC.
 
     * removing the last includes of header files which are pulling in other
       headers outside of the VDSO namespace.
 
     * seperating timekeeping and other VDSO data accordingly.
 
   Further consolidation of the VDSO page handling is done in subsequent
   changes scheduled for the next merge window.
 
   This also lays the ground for expanding the VDSO time getters for
   independent PTP clocks in a generic way without making every architecture
   add support seperately.
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Merge tag 'timers-vdso-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull vdso data page handling updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "First steps of consolidating the VDSO data page handling.

  The VDSO data page handling is architecture specific for historical
  reasons, but there is no real technical reason to do so.

  Aside of that VDSO data has become a dump ground for various
  mechanisms and fail to provide a clear separation of the
  functionalities.

  Clean this up by:

   - consolidating the VDSO page data by getting rid of architecture
     specific warts especially in x86 and PowerPC.

   - removing the last includes of header files which are pulling in
     other headers outside of the VDSO namespace.

   - seperating timekeeping and other VDSO data accordingly.

  Further consolidation of the VDSO page handling is done in subsequent
  changes scheduled for the next merge window.

  This also lays the ground for expanding the VDSO time getters for
  independent PTP clocks in a generic way without making every
  architecture add support seperately"

* tag 'timers-vdso-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (42 commits)
  x86/vdso: Add missing brackets in switch case
  vdso: Rename struct arch_vdso_data to arch_vdso_time_data
  powerpc: Split systemcfg struct definitions out from vdso
  powerpc: Split systemcfg data out of vdso data page
  powerpc: Add kconfig option for the systemcfg page
  powerpc/pseries/lparcfg: Use num_possible_cpus() for potential processors
  powerpc/pseries/lparcfg: Fix printing of system_active_processors
  powerpc/procfs: Propagate error of remap_pfn_range()
  powerpc/vdso: Remove offset comment from 32bit vdso_arch_data
  x86/vdso: Split virtual clock pages into dedicated mapping
  x86/vdso: Delete vvar.h
  x86/vdso: Access vdso data without vvar.h
  x86/vdso: Move the rng offset to vsyscall.h
  x86/vdso: Access rng vdso data without vvar.h
  x86/vdso: Access timens vdso data without vvar.h
  x86/vdso: Allocate vvar page from C code
  x86/vdso: Access rng data from kernel without vvar
  x86/vdso: Place vdso_data at beginning of vvar page
  x86/vdso: Use __arch_get_vdso_data() to access vdso data
  x86/mm/mmap: Remove arch_vma_name()
  ...
2024-11-19 16:09:13 -08:00
arch First step of consolidating the VDSO data page handling: 2024-11-19 16:09:13 -08:00
block for-6.13/block-20241118 2024-11-18 16:50:08 -08:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto Random number generator updates for Linux 6.13-rc1. 2024-11-19 10:43:44 -08:00
Documentation A set of updates for the interrupt subsystem: 2024-11-19 15:54:19 -08:00
drivers First step of consolidating the VDSO data page handling: 2024-11-19 16:09:13 -08:00
fs A set of updates for the interrupt subsystem: 2024-11-19 15:54:19 -08:00
include First step of consolidating the VDSO data page handling: 2024-11-19 16:09:13 -08:00
init vfs-6.13.misc 2024-11-18 09:35:30 -08:00
io_uring for-6.13/io_uring-20241118 2024-11-18 17:02:57 -08:00
ipc fdget(), more trivial conversions 2024-11-03 01:28:06 -05:00
kernel First step of consolidating the VDSO data page handling: 2024-11-19 16:09:13 -08:00
lib A set of changes for debugobjects: 2024-11-19 15:20:04 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm arm64 updates for 6.13: 2024-11-18 18:10:37 -08:00
net Random number generator updates for Linux 6.13-rc1. 2024-11-19 10:43:44 -08:00
rust Locking changes for v6.13 are: 2024-11-19 12:43:11 -08:00
samples - Log and handle twp new AMD-specific MCA registers: SYND1 and SYND2 and 2024-11-19 12:04:51 -08:00
scripts Objtool changes for v6.13: 2024-11-19 13:27:52 -08:00
security This update includes the following changes: 2024-11-19 10:28:41 -08:00
sound the bulk of struct fd memory safety stuff 2024-11-18 12:24:06 -08:00
tools Performance events changes for v6.13: 2024-11-19 13:34:06 -08:00
usr initramfs: shorten cmd_initfs in usr/Makefile 2024-07-16 01:07:52 +09:00
virt the bulk of struct fd memory safety stuff 2024-11-18 12:24:06 -08:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v6.12 2024-09-24 13:02:06 -07:00
.mailmap mailmap: add entry for Thorsten Blum 2024-11-07 14:14:59 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS - Add support for Bluefield-2 SOCs to bluefield_edac 2024-11-19 12:00:10 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS - Add support for Bluefield-2 SOCs to bluefield_edac 2024-11-19 12:00:10 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.12 2024-11-17 14:15:08 -08:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
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