Re: [uml-devel] SYSCALL, ptrace and syscall restart breakages (Re: [RFC] weird crap with vdso on uml/i386)

Linus Torvalds
2011-08-23T19:25:31Z

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:18 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>
> We could drop that information in a metaregister.  It's not backward
> compatible, but at least it will be obvious when that information is
> available and not.

Well, seriously, UML already looks at the word at "ip-2" for other
reasons. So it isn't like there is any point in adding more support to
just give you that information in another form.

Linus