From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>, john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-2.5.43_vsyscall_A0
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 18:26:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021021162616.GA9368@averell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1035215009.1209.1.camel@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net>
On Mo\fn, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:43:29PM +0200, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Would it be possible to allow UML to use mmap to put an alternative text
> page at the fixed address with the UML appropriate version of the
> vsyscall?
nly with lots of special cases in the VM. vsyscall is currently located
in the kernel fixing, giving user mmap access to kernel mappings
would need quite some changes.
Global sysctl is much easier and safer. As soon as x86-64 gets useful
vsyscalls again I will implement it (as I said earlier it is currently
turned off because of problems with the timers)
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-21 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-18 22:57 [PATCH] linux-2.5.43_vsyscall_A0 john stultz
2002-10-18 22:58 ` [EXAMPLE CODE] linux-2.5.43_vsyscall_A0 john stultz
2002-10-19 3:52 ` [PATCH] linux-2.5.43_vsyscall_A0 Jeff Dike
2002-10-19 3:10 ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-19 4:49 ` Jeff Dike
2002-10-19 4:02 ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-19 4:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-20 2:59 ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-20 6:44 ` Elladan
2002-10-20 9:27 ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2002-10-20 10:58 ` Elladan
2002-10-20 11:20 ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-20 14:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-21 16:49 ` george anzinger
2002-10-20 13:19 ` Andreas Jaeger
2002-10-20 14:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-19 4:10 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-19 4:45 ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-19 5:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-19 23:43 ` Jeff Dike
2002-10-20 0:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-20 2:03 ` Jeff Dike
2002-10-20 2:33 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-22 5:07 ` Jeff Dike
2002-10-22 4:15 ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-22 4:29 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-22 9:39 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-22 16:12 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-22 5:08 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-22 5:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-22 7:24 ` Elladan
2002-10-22 7:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-23 5:12 ` Elladan
2002-10-23 5:43 ` Elladan
2002-10-23 17:51 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2002-10-21 15:43 ` Stephen Hemminger
2002-10-21 16:26 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2002-10-21 17:10 ` john stultz
2002-10-19 19:14 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-10-20 1:50 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-20 2:56 ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-24 11:24 ` Pavel Machek
2002-10-24 11:24 ` Pavel Machek
2002-10-19 22:36 ` Ton Hospel
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