The following commit has been merged into the timers/vdso branch of tip:
Commit-ID: 39f1ee1299c9bab9c87dc3087b9f82f346b8190b
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/39f1ee1299c9bab9c87dc3087b9f82f346b8190b
Author: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
AuthorDate: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 08:17:05 +02:00
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CommitterDate: Thu, 04 Sep 2025 11:23:49 +02:00
ARM: VDSO: Remove cntvct_ok global variable
The cntvct_ok variable has not had any external user since commit
c7a18100bdff ("lib/vdso: Avoid highres update if clocksource is not
VDSO capable").
It also only has one user in vdso.c, once during init, so rather than
having the caller of patch_vdso() initialize cntvct_ok, just call
cntvct_functional() directly and avoid the global variable entirely.
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250826-vdso-cleanups-v1-2-d9b65750e49f@linutronix.de
---
arch/arm/include/asm/vdso/vsyscall.h | 2 --
arch/arm/kernel/vdso.c | 10 +++-------
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/vdso/vsyscall.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/vdso/vsyscall.h
index 4e7226a..ff1c729 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/vdso/vsyscall.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/vdso/vsyscall.h
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@
#include <vdso/datapage.h>
#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
-extern bool cntvct_ok;
-
static __always_inline
void __arch_sync_vdso_time_data(struct vdso_time_data *vdata)
{
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/vdso.c b/arch/arm/kernel/vdso.c
index 325448f..e38a304 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/vdso.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/vdso.c
@@ -54,11 +54,9 @@ struct elfinfo {
char *dynstr; /* ptr to .dynstr section */
};
-/* Cached result of boot-time check for whether the arch timer exists,
- * and if so, whether the virtual counter is useable.
+/* Boot-time check for whether the arch timer exists, and if so,
+ * whether the virtual counter is usable.
*/
-bool cntvct_ok __ro_after_init;
-
static bool __init cntvct_functional(void)
{
struct device_node *np;
@@ -159,7 +157,7 @@ static void __init patch_vdso(void *ehdr)
* want programs to incur the slight additional overhead of
* dispatching through the VDSO only to fall back to syscalls.
*/
- if (!cntvct_ok) {
+ if (!cntvct_functional()) {
vdso_nullpatch_one(&einfo, "__vdso_gettimeofday");
vdso_nullpatch_one(&einfo, "__vdso_clock_gettime");
vdso_nullpatch_one(&einfo, "__vdso_clock_gettime64");
@@ -197,8 +195,6 @@ static int __init vdso_init(void)
vdso_total_pages = VDSO_NR_PAGES; /* for the data/vvar pages */
vdso_total_pages += text_pages;
- cntvct_ok = cntvct_functional();
-
patch_vdso(vdso_start);
return 0;