This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled powerpc: clean vdso32 and vdso64 directories to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: powerpc-clean-vdso32-and-vdso64-directories.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 18f7fbccd6f196eeea08284b72104bfda446b4d9 Author: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Nov 10 03:50:15 2021 +0900 powerpc: clean vdso32 and vdso64 directories [ Upstream commit 964c33cd0be621b291b5d253d8731eb2680082cb ] Since commit bce74491c300 ("powerpc/vdso: fix unnecessary rebuilds of vgettimeofday.o"), "make ARCH=powerpc clean" does not clean up the arch/powerpc/kernel/{vdso32,vdso64} directories. Use the subdir- trick to let "make clean" descend into them. Fixes: bce74491c300 ("powerpc/vdso: fix unnecessary rebuilds of vgettimeofday.o") Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211109185015.615517-1-masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile index 7be36c1e1db6d..86e40db2dec56 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile @@ -196,3 +196,6 @@ clean-files := vmlinux.lds # Force dependency (incbin is bad) $(obj)/vdso32_wrapper.o : $(obj)/vdso32/vdso32.so.dbg $(obj)/vdso64_wrapper.o : $(obj)/vdso64/vdso64.so.dbg + +# for cleaning +subdir- += vdso32 vdso64