Re: [PATCH v5 18/26] arm64: vdso32: Code clean up

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Fri Mar 20 2020 - 19:21:12 EST


Quoting Vincenzo Frascino (2020-03-20 07:53:43)
> The compat vdso library had some checks that are not anymore relevant.

Can we get the information on why they aren't relevant anymore in the
commit text? I'd rather not find this commit three years from now and
have no idea why it was applied.

>
> Remove the unused code from the compat vDSO library.
>
> Note: This patch is preparatory for a future one that will introduce
> asm/vdso/processor.h on arm64.
>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200317122220.30393-19-vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx