From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964790AbWETKIF (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 May 2006 06:08:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964788AbWETKIF (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 May 2006 06:08:05 -0400 Received: from mailout1.vmware.com ([65.113.40.130]:23054 "EHLO mailout1.vmware.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964790AbWETKIE (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 May 2006 06:08:04 -0400 Message-ID: <446EE992.4020604@vmware.com> Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 03:04:02 -0700 From: Zachary Amsden User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060420) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton Cc: mingo@elte.hu, torvalds@osdl.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, kraxel@suse.de Subject: Re: [patch] i386, vdso=[0|1] boot option and /proc/sys/vm/vdso_enabled References: <1147759423.5492.102.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060516064723.GA14121@elte.hu> <1147852189.1749.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060519174303.5fd17d12.akpm@osdl.org> <20060520010303.GA17858@elte.hu> <20060519181125.5c8e109e.akpm@osdl.org> <20060520085351.GA28716@elte.hu> <20060520022650.46b048f8.akpm@osdl.org> <446EE1C2.7060400@vmware.com> <20060520024842.69c77aaf.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060520024842.69c77aaf.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > Zachary Amsden wrote: > >> Please try my patch - sent earlier, but attached again. It will tell >> you with 100% confidence if the problem is with userspace expecting the >> vsyscall page to be at a particular address. >> >> >> [bogo-fixmap text/plain (645 bytes)] >> >> Index: linux-2.6.17-rc/include/asm-i386/fixmap.h >> =================================================================== >> --- linux-2.6.17-rc.orig/include/asm-i386/fixmap.h 2006-03-19 21:53:29.000000000 -0800 >> +++ linux-2.6.17-rc/include/asm-i386/fixmap.h 2006-05-19 18:16:00.000000000 -0700 >> @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ >> * Leave one empty page between vmalloc'ed areas and >> * the start of the fixmap. >> */ >> -#define __FIXADDR_TOP 0xfffff000 >> +#define __FIXADDR_TOP 0xffbff000 >> > > The machine runs OK with that applied and with > move-vsyscall-page-out-of-fixmap-into-normal-vma-as-per-mmap.patch not > applied. > Err. That implies that there is likely a problem in the kernel patch, not in userspace, Let's look more closely at move-vsyscall-page-out-of-fixmap-into-normal-vma-as-per-mmap and see if there is something missing. Zach