kernel: deactivate the vdso gettimeofday function.
authorHauke Mehrtens <[email protected]>
Thu, 25 Feb 2016 22:31:51 +0000 (22:31 +0000)
committerHauke Mehrtens <[email protected]>
Thu, 25 Feb 2016 22:31:51 +0000 (22:31 +0000)
The vdso version of this function has some problems with the cache.
Very often it works on dated data which causes problem. We are
currently working on fixing this in upstream Linux kernel.

Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <[email protected]>
SVN-Revision: 48787

target/linux/generic/patches-4.4/340-MIPS-deactivate-gettimeofday-vdso.patch [new file with mode: 0644]

diff --git a/target/linux/generic/patches-4.4/340-MIPS-deactivate-gettimeofday-vdso.patch b/target/linux/generic/patches-4.4/340-MIPS-deactivate-gettimeofday-vdso.patch
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..a77bdf8
--- /dev/null
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+--- a/arch/mips/vdso/Makefile
++++ b/arch/mips/vdso/Makefile
+@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+ # Objects to go into the VDSO.
+-obj-vdso-y := elf.o gettimeofday.o sigreturn.o
++obj-vdso-y := elf.o sigreturn.o
+ # Common compiler flags between ABIs.
+ ccflags-vdso := \