Re: [PATCH] x86/vdso: drop implicit common-page-size linker flag

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri Dec 07 2018 - 12:53:04 EST


On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 09:45:42AM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> Google's Native Client, a technology for running native code in a web
> browser. It's since been superseded by Portable Native Client (pNaCl)
> and to an extent Web Assembly. It seems that BFD still contains code
> for NaCl.

Yeah, found the wikipedia page. :)

> How does this sound:
> TL;DR
> -z common-page-size's default value is based on the target
> architecture. arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile sets it to the
> architecture default, which is implicit and redundant. Drop it.

Sure. Although the longer explanation gives more insight into the whole
deal but that's fine too - the longer explanation is on the ML and we
have the Link: tags.

So no need to resend - I'll simply take the three-liner above.

Thx.

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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