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From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: akpm@osdl.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [PATCH 5/7] UML - ELF locking commentary
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:47:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702071947.l17JlnMY006620@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)

Comment the lack of locking of the elf data extracted from the ELF headers
passed to UML.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
--
 arch/um/os-Linux/elf_aux.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.18-mm/arch/um/os-Linux/elf_aux.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.18-mm.orig/arch/um/os-Linux/elf_aux.c	2006-06-17 21:49:35.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.18-mm/arch/um/os-Linux/elf_aux.c	2007-01-09 15:33:31.000000000 -0500
@@ -21,12 +21,11 @@ typedef Elf32_auxv_t elf_auxv_t;
 typedef Elf64_auxv_t elf_auxv_t;
 #endif
 
+/* These are initialized very early in boot and never changed */
 char * elf_aux_platform;
 long elf_aux_hwcap;
-
 unsigned long vsyscall_ehdr;
 unsigned long vsyscall_end;
-
 unsigned long __kernel_vsyscall;
 
 __init void scan_elf_aux( char **envp)


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