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- Provide the missing 64-bit variant of clock_getres()
This allows the extension of CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME to the vDSO and
finally the removal of 32-bit time types from the kernel and UAPI.
- Remove the useless and broken getcpu_cache from the VDSO
The intention was to provide a trivial way to retrieve the CPU number from
the VDSO, but as the VDSO data is per process there is no way to make it
work.
- Switch get/put_unaligned() from packed struct to memcpy()
The packed struct violates strict aliasing rules which requires to pass
-fno-strict-aliasing to the compiler. As this are scalar values
__builtin_memcpy() turns them into simple loads and stores
- Use __typeof_unqual__() for __unqual_scalar_typeof()
The get/put_unaligned() changes triggered a new sparse warning when __beNN
types are used with get/put_unaligned() as sparse builds add a special
'bitwise' attribute to them which prevents sparse to evaluate the Generic
in __unqual_scalar_typeof().
Newer sparse versions support __typeof_unqual__() which avoids the problem,
but requires a recent sparse install. So this adds a sanity check to sparse
builds, which validates that sparse is available and capable of handling it.
- Force inline __cvdso_clock_getres_common()
Compilers sometimes un-inline agressively, which results in function call
overhead and problems with automatic stack variable initialization.
Interestingly enough the force inlining results in smaller code than the
un-inlined variant produced by GCC when optimizing for size.
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Merge tag 'timers-vdso-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull VDSO updates from Thomas Gleixner:
- Provide the missing 64-bit variant of clock_getres()
This allows the extension of CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME to the vDSO and
finally the removal of 32-bit time types from the kernel and UAPI.
- Remove the useless and broken getcpu_cache from the VDSO
The intention was to provide a trivial way to retrieve the CPU number
from the VDSO, but as the VDSO data is per process there is no way to
make it work.
- Switch get/put_unaligned() from packed struct to memcpy()
The packed struct violates strict aliasing rules which requires to
pass -fno-strict-aliasing to the compiler. As this are scalar values
__builtin_memcpy() turns them into simple loads and stores
- Use __typeof_unqual__() for __unqual_scalar_typeof()
The get/put_unaligned() changes triggered a new sparse warning when
__beNN types are used with get/put_unaligned() as sparse builds add a
special 'bitwise' attribute to them which prevents sparse to evaluate
the Generic in __unqual_scalar_typeof().
Newer sparse versions support __typeof_unqual__() which avoids the
problem, but requires a recent sparse install. So this adds a sanity
check to sparse builds, which validates that sparse is available and
capable of handling it.
- Force inline __cvdso_clock_getres_common()
Compilers sometimes un-inline agressively, which results in function
call overhead and problems with automatic stack variable
initialization.
Interestingly enough the force inlining results in smaller code than
the un-inlined variant produced by GCC when optimizing for size.
* tag 'timers-vdso-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
vdso/gettimeofday: Force inlining of __cvdso_clock_getres_common()
x86/percpu: Make CONFIG_USE_X86_SEG_SUPPORT work with sparse
compiler: Use __typeof_unqual__() for __unqual_scalar_typeof()
powerpc/vdso: Provide clock_getres_time64()
tools headers: Remove unneeded ignoring of warnings in unaligned.h
tools headers: Update the linux/unaligned.h copy with the kernel sources
vdso: Switch get/put_unaligned() from packed struct to memcpy()
parisc: Inline a type punning version of get_unaligned_le32()
vdso: Remove struct getcpu_cache
MIPS: vdso: Provide getres_time64() for 32-bit ABIs
arm64: vdso32: Provide clock_getres_time64()
ARM: VDSO: Provide clock_getres_time64()
ARM: VDSO: Patch out __vdso_clock_getres() if unavailable
x86/vdso: Provide clock_getres_time64() for x86-32
selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Add test for clock_getres_time64()
selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Use UAPI system call numbers
selftests: vDSO: vdso_config: Add configurations for clock_getres_time64()
vdso: Add prototype for __vdso_clock_getres_time64()
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