From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Fix VMI and COMPAT_VDSO for 2.6.21
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:47:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070310084750.GA15647@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45F257C1.4070904@vmware.com>
* Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> wrote:
> Zachary Amsden wrote:
> >VMI is broken under COMPAT_VDSO, as Xen and other non hardware
> >assisted hypervisors will be. I have been working on a fix for this
> >which works for older glibcs that panic when the new relocatable VDSO
> >is used. However, I believe at this time that the fix is going to be
> >too radical to consider at this stage in the release of 2.6.21. We
> >don't expect this config option to be turned on by vendors for new
> >distributions, so at this point we are willing to drop support for it
> >when VMI is compiled in, and work on a patch for 2.6.22 which more
> >fully addresses the problem.
> >
> >Please apply, thanks.
makes sense. We can do Jan's relocatable-COMPAT_VDSO thing in v2.6.22,
but for v2.6.21 that's way too intrusive.
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> I suppose it would be better if I attached the patch.
it certainly helps ;-)
Ingo
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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Fix VMI and COMPAT_VDSO for 2.6.21
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:47:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070310084750.GA15647@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45F257C1.4070904@vmware.com>
* Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> wrote:
> Zachary Amsden wrote:
> >VMI is broken under COMPAT_VDSO, as Xen and other non hardware
> >assisted hypervisors will be. I have been working on a fix for this
> >which works for older glibcs that panic when the new relocatable VDSO
> >is used. However, I believe at this time that the fix is going to be
> >too radical to consider at this stage in the release of 2.6.21. We
> >don't expect this config option to be turned on by vendors for new
> >distributions, so at this point we are willing to drop support for it
> >when VMI is compiled in, and work on a patch for 2.6.22 which more
> >fully addresses the problem.
> >
> >Please apply, thanks.
makes sense. We can do Jan's relocatable-COMPAT_VDSO thing in v2.6.22,
but for v2.6.21 that's way too intrusive.
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> I suppose it would be better if I attached the patch.
it certainly helps ;-)
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-10 8:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-10 7:00 PATCH: Fix VMI and COMPAT_VDSO for 2.6.21 Zachary Amsden
2007-03-10 7:01 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-03-10 7:01 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-03-10 8:47 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-03-10 8:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-03-10 10:32 ` Zachary Amsden
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