Re: [patch] paravirt: VDSO page is essential

Zachary Amsden
2007-03-06T07:42:30Z

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
>
>
>>> I had just sent this out for internal review...
>>>
>> I think Jan's approach is better if it works (since there's no
>> compromise), but this is better if you want to get something working
>> in the near term.
>>
>
> yeah. (plus my patches of course that remove the current papering-over
> hackery and restores COMPAT_VDSO.)
>

Yes, I don't have a problem with your patch, I just wish I had been cc'd
on it. Fixing this is rather tricky, but I believe no strange build
magic is required, it can be done in kernel init code. Still building
my SUSE 9.0 guest to test. SUSE 9.0 is one of those that requires
COMPAT_VDSO, yes?

Thanks,

Zach