Re: [PATCH v5 00/34] sparc64: vdso: Switch to the generic vDSO library

On Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 11:01:53AM +0100, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:

The generic vDSO provides a lot common functionality shared between different architectures. SPARC is the last architecture not using it, preventing some necessary code cleanup.

Make use of the generic infrastructure.

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Changes in v5:

• Merge the patches for 'struct page' mapping and dynamic allocation
• Zero out newly-allocated data pages
• Pick up review tags
• Link to v4: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251014-vdso-sparc64-generic-2-v4-0-e0607bf49dea@...

I've validated that the zeroing fixes the issues we were seeing with boot failures on a reasonable chunk of the arm64 platforms:

Tested-by: Mark Brown broonie@kernel.org

I didn't get to all of them but I'd expect the rest are also fine.