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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 15:28:20 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
       Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [patch] paravirt: VDSO page is essential
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> Can't paravirt patch the syscall instruction like it does the rest of 
> the kernel?

The problem is not the syscall instruction, but some problem with
the way the vDSO mapping is set up with CONFIG_PARAVIRT that broke older glibc.

-Andi