Merge tag 'timers-vdso-2026-04-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull vdso updates from Thomas Gleixner:

- Make the handling of compat functions consistent and more robu

Merge tag 'timers-vdso-2026-04-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull vdso updates from Thomas Gleixner:

- Make the handling of compat functions consistent and more robust

- Rework the underlying data store so that it is dynamically allocated,
which allows the conversion of the last holdout SPARC64 to the
generic VDSO implementation

- Rework the SPARC64 VDSO to utilize the generic implementation

- Mop up the left overs of the non-generic VDSO support in the core
code

- Expand the VDSO selftest and make them more robust

- Allow time namespaces to be enabled independently of the generic VDSO
support, which was not possible before due to SPARC64 not using it

- Various cleanups and improvements in the related code

* tag 'timers-vdso-2026-04-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (51 commits)
timens: Use task_lock guard in timens_get*()
timens: Use mutex guard in proc_timens_set_offset()
timens: Simplify some calls to put_time_ns()
timens: Add a __free() wrapper for put_time_ns()
timens: Remove dependency on the vDSO
vdso/timens: Move functions to new file
selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_correctness: Add a test for time()
selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_correctness: Use facilities from parse_vdso.c
selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_correctness: Handle different tv_usec types
selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_correctness: Drop SYS_getcpu fallbacks
selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_gettimeofday: Remove nolibc checks
Revert "selftests: vDSO: parse_vdso: Use UAPI headers instead of libc headers"
random: vDSO: Remove ifdeffery
random: vDSO: Trim vDSO includes
vdso/datapage: Trim down unnecessary includes
vdso/datapage: Remove inclusion of gettimeofday.h
vdso/helpers: Explicitly include vdso/processor.h
vdso/gettimeofday: Add explicit includes
random: vDSO: Add explicit includes
MIPS: vdso: Explicitly include asm/vdso/vdso.h
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sparc64: vdso: Introduce vdso/processor.h

The generic vDSO library expects a vdso/processor.h with an definition of
cpu_relax().

Split out cpu_relax() into this dedicated header.

Signed-off-by: Th

sparc64: vdso: Introduce vdso/processor.h

The generic vDSO library expects a vdso/processor.h with an definition of
cpu_relax().

Split out cpu_relax() into this dedicated header.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304-vdso-sparc64-generic-2-v6-9-d8eb3b0e1410@linutronix.de

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