Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH 07/10] um: Set __HAVE_ARCH_GATE_AREA for x86_64

[Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>]

Am Samstag 23 Juli 2011, 01:01:27 schrieb Andrew Morton:
> On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:18:31 +0200
> 
> Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote:
> > Implement arch_vma_name() and make get_gate_vma(),
> > in_gate_area() and in_gate_area_no_mm() a nop.
> > 
> > We need arch_vma_name() to support vDSO.
> 
> Well this is awkward.

Why?
Without it UML's vDSO will have no name.
E.g. when reading /proc/<pid>/maps

> >  arch/um/sys-x86_64/asm/elf.h |    1 +
> >  arch/um/sys-x86_64/mem.c     |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> Your um-clean-up-vm-flagsh.patch deleted arch/um/sys-x86_64/mem.c.
> 
> There's not really any appropriate .c file in arch/um/sys-x86_64 for
> these functions so I changed the patch to reinstate mem.c.
> 
> Then I changed my maind and dropped it ;) Hopefully none of the other
> patches depended on this one.
> 
> Then I looked at um-implement-a-x86_64-vdso.patch, got nervous and
> undropped um-set-__have_arch_gate_area-for-x86_64.patch.

I see, you've had some fun with this patch. ;-)
Sorry for that, I completely forgot rebasing my patches to mmotm.

Thanks,
//richard

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