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2026-03-11	vdso/datastore: Allocate data pages dynamically	Thomas Weißschuh	1	-0/+6
	Allocating the data pages as part of the kernel image does not work on SPARC. The MMU will raise a fault when userspace tries to access them. Allocate the data pages through the page allocator instead. Unused pages in the vDSO VMA are still allocated to keep the virtual addresses aligned. Switch the mapping from PFNs to 'struct page' as that is required for dynamically allocated pages. This also aligns the allocation of the datapages with the code pages and is a prerequisite for mlockall() support. VM_MIXEDMAP is necessary for the call to vmf_insert_page() in the timens prefault path to work. The data pages need to be order-0, non-compound pages so that the mapping to userspace and the different orderings work. These pages are also used by the timekeeping, random pool and architecture initialization code. Some of these are running before the page allocator is available. To keep these subsytems working without changes, introduce early, statically data storage which will then replaced by the real one as soon as that is available. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) <chleroy@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304-vdso-sparc64-generic-2-v6-3-d8eb3b0e1410@linutronix.de
2025-02-21	vdso: Add generic time data storage	Thomas Weißschuh	1	-0/+10
	Historically each architecture defined their own way to store the vDSO data page. Add a generic mechanism to provide storage for that page. Furthermore this generic storage will be extended to also provide uniform storage for non-time-related data, like the random state or architecture-specific data. These will have their own pages and data structures, so rename 'vdso_data' into 'vdso_time_data' to make that split clear from the name. Also introduce a new consistent naming scheme for the symbols related to the vDSO, which makes it clear if the symbol is accessible from userspace or kernel space and the type of data behind the symbol. The generic fault handler contains an optimization to prefault the vvar page when the timens page is accessed. This was lifted from s390 and x86. Co-developed-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250204-vdso-store-rng-v3-5-13a4669dfc8c@linutronix.de