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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/12] arm+arm64: vdso unification to lib/vdso/
To: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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From: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
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On 10/31/2017 02:30 PM, Mark Salyzyn wrote:
> Take an effort to recode the arm64 vdso code from assembler to C
> previously submitted by Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com>, rework
> it for use in both arm and arm64, overlapping any optimizations
> for each architecture. But instead of landing it in arm64, land the
> result into lib/vdso and unify both implementations to simplify
> future maintenance. This will act as the basis for implementing
> arm64 vdso32 in the future.

In the original patch series, our QE folks found a problem that lead to
its revertion from our internal trees. I've pinged them to check this
latest version and followup if we see the same failures now.

Jon.

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