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From: Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>
To: Chris Ball <chris@void.printf.net>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: vsyscalls
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 19:04:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020306190456.E21655@mark.mielke.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203061238380.17114-100000@twinlark.arctic.org> <87bse14c4h.fsf@lexis.house.pkl.net>
In-Reply-To: <87bse14c4h.fsf@lexis.house.pkl.net>; from chris@void.printf.net on Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 09:31:10PM +0000

On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 09:31:10PM +0000, Chris Ball wrote:
>  dean> ingo started the proper work for this, for example, see:
>  dean> <http://people.redhat.com/mingo/vsyscall-patches/vsyscall-2.3.32-F4>
>  dean> (there's a documentation file near the bottom of the patch)
>  dean> but it doesn't appear to support gettimeofday via rdtsc yet.
> Interesting patch; when last I looked, vsyscalls were only being
> implemented on the new 64-bit architectures.

> Does this patch break binary compatibility?  I seem to recall that being
> Andrea's reason for not running vsyscalls on standard x86 back in August
> last year.

WinNT looks like it supports vsyscalls (or at least SYSENTER).

mark

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-03-07  0:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-06  3:41 a faster way to gettimeofday? Ben Greear
2002-03-06  3:58 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-03-06  4:20   ` Ben Greear
2002-03-06  4:31     ` Davide Libenzi
2002-03-06  4:34       ` Davide Libenzi
2002-03-07 14:14       ` a faster way to gettimeofday? rdtsc strangeness Terje Eggestad
2002-03-07 14:41         ` Alan Cox
2002-03-07 15:43           ` Terje Eggestad
2002-03-07 16:17             ` Alan Cox
2002-03-07 18:32             ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-08  1:32               ` Jamie Lokier
2002-03-08  1:35                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-08  1:57                   ` Jamie Lokier
2002-03-08 18:30                     ` gettimeofday() system call timing curiosity Jamie Lokier
2002-03-08 18:50                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-08 20:16                         ` Jamie Lokier
2002-03-08 20:30                           ` Davide Libenzi
2002-03-08 18:54                       ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-03-08 19:06                         ` johan.adolfsson
2002-03-08 19:16                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-08 19:45                           ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-03-08 20:29                             ` johan.adolfsson
2002-03-08 20:43                             ` Alan Cox
2002-03-09  3:03                               ` pjd
2002-03-09 18:51                                 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-09  3:15                             ` Kelsey Hudson
2002-03-08 19:19                         ` Alan Cox
2002-03-08 20:40                         ` george anzinger
2002-03-06 20:45     ` a faster way to gettimeofday? dean gaudet
2002-03-06 21:31       ` Chris Ball
2002-03-06 22:25         ` george anzinger
2002-03-07  0:04         ` Mark Mielke [this message]
2002-03-06 16:16 ` Chris Friesen
2002-03-06 16:54   ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-03-11 22:47 ` OBATA Noboru
2002-03-12 13:06   ` Jamie Lokier
2002-03-12 15:12     ` OBATA Noboru

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