(cherry pick from url https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10044497/)
Take an effort to recode the arm64 vdso code from assembler to C
previously submitted by Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com>, rework
it for use in both arm and arm64, overlapping any optimizations
for each architecture. But instead of landing it in arm64, land the
result into lib/vdso and unify both implementations to simplify
future maintenance.
Declare arch/arm/vdso/vgettimeofday.c to be a candidate for a global
implementation of the vdso timer calls. The hope is that new
architectures can take advantage of the current unification of
arm and arm64 implementations.
We urge future efforts to merge their implementations into the
global vgettimeofday.c file and thus provide functional parity.
Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Andy Gross <andy.gross@linaro.org>
Cc: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Cc: Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Bug: 63737556
Bug: 20045882
Change-Id: If7da1d8144684d52ed9520a581e6023c623df931
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