* why no vsyscall support on x86 or i386 ?
@ 2011-12-16 1:59 Fredrick
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From: Fredrick @ 2011-12-16 1:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kernelnewbies
Hi,
Why there is no vsyscall support on i386? I see it only on x86_64. In
x86_64 it supports gettimeofday, etc.
In i386, it only uses to support the sysenter optimization.
Why there is no support for gettimeofday in i386 as a vsyscall?
-Fredrick
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