From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754921Ab1G0Q7f (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:59:35 -0400 Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:16524 "EHLO rcsinet15.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754903Ab1G0Q7d convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:59:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:58:45 -0400 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk To: Andrew Lutomirski Cc: jeremy@goop.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, x86@kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, keir.xen@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/5] Collected vdso/vsyscall fixes for 3.1 Message-ID: <20110727165844.GA8064@dumpdata.com> References: <20110727145745.GA11872@dumpdata.com> <20110727153015.GA16688@dumpdata.com> <20110727154316.GA16909@dumpdata.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090206.4E3043D2.0078:SCFMA922111,ss=1,re=-4.000,fgs=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > >> $ test_vsyscall test > >> Testing gettimeofday... > >>   vDSO offset = 0.000001s > >>   vsyscall offset = 0.000001s > >> > >> Testing time... > >>   vDSO offset = 0 > >>   vsyscall offset = 0 > >> Testing getcpu... > >>   ok!  cpu=6 node=0 > I bet if you pull a new copy or remove -mavx from Makefile it will > work. I got a grossly hacked-up Xen domU booted and everything seems > to work. It did. Both Dom0 and DomU work on AMD and Intel. In regards to the last pv-ops patch - is there no better way? The reason I am asking is the pv-ops hook is just a bandaid for the problem. Is the Xen syscall suppose to be doingsomething extra with the stack perhaps?