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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [x86_64 PATCH] IA32 vsyscall DSO compatibility in IA32_EMULATION
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 10:39:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030516083941.GA701@Wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200305160830.h4G8Ufx01882@magilla.sf.frob.com>

On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 01:30:41AM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 03:39:36PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > > Btw, 2.5 ia32 core dumping on x86-64 as is crashes without the patch I just
> > > posted to lkml.
> > 
> > Check out ftp://ftp.x86-64.org/pub/linux/v2.5/x86_64-2.5.69-4.bz2
> 
> Too bad such changes don't go into the main 2.5 tree quickly enough for me
> to see them when I look.

I submitted them three times so far, but Linus currently prefers to drop
patches instead of merging them.

> 
> My changes reduce the hard-coding of so many address and offset constants,
> and reduce the error-prone duplication and maintenance work by using the
> i386 vsyscall.lds linker script directly.  You might want to incorporate that.

I like my current code, thank you.

-Andi

      reply	other threads:[~2003-05-16  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-15 22:39 [x86_64 PATCH] IA32 vsyscall DSO compatibility in IA32_EMULATION Roland McGrath
2003-05-16  7:08 ` Andi Kleen
2003-05-16  8:30   ` Roland McGrath
2003-05-16  8:39     ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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