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| author | Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> | 2013-01-07 16:12:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> | 2013-01-10 10:43:43 +0000 |
| commit | bdba0051ebcb3c6372f9cc0b2524c47cc6ce46fd (patch) | |
| tree | 38efe063fe3fc5516e3a372a5d7908a9a5f2bf5d /arch | |
| parent | 9931faca02c604c22335f5a935a501bb2ace6e20 (diff) | |
| download | linux-bdba0051ebcb3c6372f9cc0b2524c47cc6ce46fd.tar.bz2 | |
arm64: vdso: remove broken, redundant sequence counting for timezones
This patch is an arm64 version of ce73ec6db47a ("powerpc/vdso: Remove
redundant locking in update_vsyscall_tz()").
Timezone data is not protected, so the sequence counter is not required
to ensure consistency. Furthermore, having multiple paths updating the
counter leads to a race between update_vsyscall and update_vsyscall_tz,
so remove the timezone sequence counting from both the kernel and the
vdso.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S | 2 |
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c index c958cb84d75f..6a389dc1bd49 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso.c @@ -252,10 +252,6 @@ void update_vsyscall(struct timekeeper *tk) void update_vsyscall_tz(void) { - ++vdso_data->tb_seq_count; - smp_wmb(); vdso_data->tz_minuteswest = sys_tz.tz_minuteswest; vdso_data->tz_dsttime = sys_tz.tz_dsttime; - smp_wmb(); - ++vdso_data->tb_seq_count; } diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S index 8bf658d974f9..f0a6d10b5211 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S @@ -73,8 +73,6 @@ ENTRY(__kernel_gettimeofday) /* If tz is NULL, return 0. */ cbz x1, 3f ldp w4, w5, [vdso_data, #VDSO_TZ_MINWEST] - seqcnt_read w9 - seqcnt_check w9, 1b stp w4, w5, [x1, #TZ_MINWEST] 3: mov x0, xzr |