Re: [patch] paravirt: VDSO page is essential

Ingo Molnar
2007-03-05T13:56:23Z

* Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:

> > VDSO is only a problem if (1) the hypervisor wants to reserve the
> > top virtual address space (CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y), and (2) the glibc is
> > old and
>
> It broke the boot even with native hardware, no hypervisor

yeah - i just sent the fix for that regression - by making
CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO usable again.

basically, we want to avoid all the compatibility mess that exists on
the hypervisor side to enter the Linux kernel.

Ingo