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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>, Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>,
	Andreas Brief <Andreas.Brief@rohde-schwarz.com>,
	Martin Runge <Martin.Runge@rohde-schwarz.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove compat vdso support
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:38:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140311003856.GA4203@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrX1RBVYAKyN_GdvF8w3S=A5wZ_XaMqR_MjdLim7RMR8NQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 05:19:27PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
 > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 5:13 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> wrote:
 > > On 03/10/2014 05:12 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
 > >> The compat vDSO is a complicated hack that's needed to maintain
 > >> compatibility with a small range of never-released glibc versions.
 > >>
 > >> This removes it and replaces it with a much simpler hack: a config
 > >> option to disable the 32-bit vDSO by default.
 > >>
 > >> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
 > >
 > > Can we verify this works correctly on the affected distributions?
 > 
 > It works correctly on Fedora 20 32-bit and 64-bit.

I went and dug through the SRPMs at https://archives.fedoraproject.org
Fedora hasn't ever shipped with COMPAT_VDSO enabled.
Before FC6 (kernel 2.6.18), the option never existed.

	Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-11  0:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-11  0:12 [PATCH] x86: Remove compat vdso support Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-11  0:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-11  0:19   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-11  0:38     ` Dave Jones [this message]
2014-03-11  0:58       ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-03-11  6:28 ` Andi Kleen

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