[PATCH] vdso.7: update for ARM

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The 32-bit ARM architecture in Linux has gained a vDSO as of the 4.1
release.  (I was the primary author.)

Document the symbols exported by the ARM VDSO.

Accepted kernel submission:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2015-March/332573.html

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathan_lynch@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 man7/vdso.7 | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man7/vdso.7 b/man7/vdso.7
index 193fadeb52f8..4df579edd401 100644
--- a/man7/vdso.7
+++ b/man7/vdso.7
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ l l.
 user ABI	vDSO name
 _
 aarch64	linux-vdso.so.1
+arm	linux-vdso.so.1
 ia64	linux-gate.so.1
 ppc/32	linux-vdso32.so.1
 ppc/64	linux-vdso64.so.1
@@ -175,9 +176,27 @@ an i386 32-bit kernel or under an x86_64 64-bit kernel.
 Therefore, the name of the user-space ABI should be used to determine
 which of the sections below is relevant.
 .SS ARM functions
+.\" See linux/arch/arm/vdso/vdso.lds.S
+.\" Commit: 8512287a8165592466cb9cb347ba94892e9c56a5
+The table below lists the symbols exported by the vDSO.
+.if t \{\
+.ft CW
+\}
+.TS
+l l.
+symbol	version
+_
+__vdso_gettimeofday	LINUX_2.6 (exported since Linux 4.1)
+__vdso_clock_gettime	LINUX_2.6 (exported since Linux 4.1)
+.TE
+.if t \{\
+.in
+.ft P
+\}
+
 .\" See linux/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
 .\" See linux/Documentation/arm/kernel_user_helpers.txt
-The ARM port has a code page full of utility functions.
+Additionally, the ARM port has a code page full of utility functions.
 Since it's just a raw page of code, there is no ELF information for doing
 symbol lookups or versioning.
 It does provide support for different versions though.
-- 
2.1.0

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