From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933504AbXCJHBY (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:01:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933496AbXCJHBY (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:01:24 -0500 Received: from smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com ([65.113.40.141]:49513 "EHLO smtp-outbound-1.vmware.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933502AbXCJHBW (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:01:22 -0500 Message-ID: <45F257C1.4070904@vmware.com> Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 23:01:21 -0800 From: Zachary Amsden User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zachary Amsden CC: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , Ingo Molnar , Rusty Russell , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Chris Wright , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Virtualization Mailing List Subject: Re: PATCH: Fix VMI and COMPAT_VDSO for 2.6.21 References: <45F2578E.3060907@vmware.com> In-Reply-To: <45F2578E.3060907@vmware.com> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------090606070209090205050408" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------090606070209090205050408 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Zachary Amsden wrote: > VMI is broken under COMPAT_VDSO, as Xen and other non hardware > assisted hypervisors will be. I have been working on a fix for this > which works for older glibcs that panic when the new relocatable VDSO > is used. However, I believe at this time that the fix is going to be > too radical to consider at this stage in the release of 2.6.21. We > don't expect this config option to be turned on by vendors for new > distributions, so at this point we are willing to drop support for it > when VMI is compiled in, and work on a patch for 2.6.22 which more > fully addresses the problem. > > Please apply, thanks. I suppose it would be better if I attached the patch. Zach --------------090606070209090205050408 Content-Type: text/plain; name="vmi-depends-on-not-compat-vdso.patch" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="vmi-depends-on-not-compat-vdso.patch" Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden Index: linux-2.6.21/arch/i386/Kconfig =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.21.orig/arch/i386/Kconfig 2007-03-06 18:51:33.000000000 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.21/arch/i386/Kconfig 2007-03-09 22:36:15.000000000 -0800 @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ config PARAVIRT config VMI bool "VMI Paravirt-ops support" - depends on PARAVIRT + depends on PARAVIRT && !COMPAT_VDSO help VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to the VMware ESX server (it could be used by other hypervisors in theory too, but is not --------------090606070209090205050408--