kernel/linux.git/include/vdso/helpers.h, branch v7.1

vdso/helpers: Explicitly include vdso/processor.h

2026-03-11T14:22:26+00:00

The usage of cpu_relax() requires vdso/processor.h. Currently this header is included transitively, but that transitive inclusion is about to go away. Explicitly include the header. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260227-vdso-header-cleanups-v2-11-35d60acf7410@linutronix.de

vdso/gettimeofday: Move the unlikely() into vdso_read_retry()

2026-03-11T14:12:05+00:00

All callers of vdso_read_retry() test its return value with unlikely(). Move the unlikely into the helper to make the code easier to read. This is equivalent to the retry function of non-vDSO seqlocks. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260227-vdso-cleanups-v1-4-c848b4bc4850@linutronix.de

vdso/gettimeofday: Add a helper to test if a clock is namespaced

2026-03-11T14:09:59+00:00

Currently this logic is duplicate multiple times. Add a helper for it to make the code more readable. [ bp: Add a missing clocksource.h include, see https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260311113435-f72f81d8-33a6-4a0f-bd80-4997aad068cc@linutronix.de ] Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260227-vdso-cleanups-v1-3-c848b4bc4850@linutronix.de

vdso/gettimeofday: Add a helper to read the sequence lock of a time namespace aware clock

2026-03-11T09:27:35+00:00

Currently there are three different open-coded variants of a time namespace aware variant of vdso_read_begin(). They make the code hard to read and introduce an inconsistency, as only the first copy uses unlikely(). Split the code into a shared helper function. Move that next to the definition of the regular vdso_read_begin(), so that any future changes can be kept in sync easily. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260227-vdso-cleanups-v1-2-c848b4bc4850@linutronix.de

vdso/helpers: Add helpers for seqlocks of single vdso_clock

2025-07-09T09:52:34+00:00

Auxiliary clocks will have their vDSO data in a dedicated 'struct vdso_clock', which needs to be synchronized independently. Add a helper to synchronize a single vDSO clock. [ tglx: Move the SMP memory barriers to the call sites and get rid of the confusing first/last arguments and conditional barriers ] Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250701-vdso-auxclock-v1-4-df7d9f87b9b8@linutronix.de

vdso: Rework struct vdso_time_data and introduce struct vdso_clock

2025-03-08T13:37:41+00:00

To support multiple PTP clocks, the VDSO data structure needs to be reworked. All clock specific data will end up in struct vdso_clock and in struct vdso_time_data there will be an array of VDSO clocks. Now that all preparatory changes are in place: Split the clock related struct members into a separate struct vdso_clock. Make sure all users are aware, that vdso_time_data is no longer initialized as an array and vdso_clock is now the array inside vdso_data. Remove the vdso_clock define, which mapped it to vdso_time_data for the transition. Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen Signed-off-by: Nam Cao Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250303-vdso-clock-v1-19-c1b5c69a166f@linutronix.de

vdso/helpers: Prepare introduction of struct vdso_clock

2025-03-08T13:37:40+00:00

To support multiple PTP clocks, the VDSO data structure needs to be reworked. All clock specific data will end up in struct vdso_clock and in struct vdso_time_data there will be an array of VDSO clocks. For now, vdso_clock is simply a define which maps vdso_clock to vdso_time_data. Prepare all functions which need the pointer to the vdso_clock array to work well after the structures get reworked. Replace the struct vdso_time_data pointer with a struct vdso_clock pointer where applicable. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen Signed-off-by: Nam Cao Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250303-vdso-clock-v1-5-c1b5c69a166f@linutronix.de

vdso: Remove remnants of architecture-specific time storage

2025-02-21T08:54:03+00:00

All users of the time releated parts of the vDSO are now using the generic storage implementation. Remove the therefore unnecessary compatibility accessor functions and symbols. Co-developed-by: Nam Cao Signed-off-by: Nam Cao Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250204-vdso-store-rng-v3-18-13a4669dfc8c@linutronix.de

random: vDSO: minimize and simplify header includes

2024-09-13T15:28:35+00:00

Depending on the architecture, building a 32-bit vDSO on a 64-bit kernel is problematic when some system headers are included. Minimise the amount of headers by moving needed items, such as __{get,put}_unaligned_t, into dedicated common headers and in general use more specific headers, similar to what was done in commit 8165b57bca21 ("linux/const.h: Extract common header for vDSO") and commit 8c59ab839f52 ("lib/vdso: Enable common headers"). On some architectures this results in missing PAGE_SIZE, as was described by commit 8b3843ae3634 ("vdso/datapage: Quick fix - use asm/page-def.h for ARM64"), so define this if necessary, in the same way as done prior by commit cffaefd15a8f ("vdso: Use CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT in vdso/datapage.h"). Removing linux/time64.h leads to missing 'struct timespec64' in x86's asm/pvclock.h. Add a forward declaration of that struct in that file. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld

vdso/helpers: Fix grammar in comments

2024-02-20T19:56:00+00:00

Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240219153939.75719-2-anna-maria@linutronix.de