Re: [PATCH vdsotest] Use vdso wrapper for gettimeofday()

From: Nathan Lynch
Date: Thu Jan 16 2020 - 11:58:48 EST


Hi Christophe,

Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx> writes:
> To properly handle errors returned by gettimeofday(), the
> DO_VDSO_CALL() macro has to be used, otherwise vdsotest
> misinterpret VDSO function return on error.
>
> This has gone unnoticed until now because the powerpc VDSO
> gettimeofday() always succeed, but while porting powerpc to
> generic C VDSO, the following has been encountered:

Thanks for this, I'll review it soon.

Can you point me to patches for the powerpc generic vdso work?