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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: stefani@seibold.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	mingo@redhat.com, ak@linux.intel.com, aarcange@redhat.com,
	john.stultz@linaro.org, luto@amacapital.net, xemul@parallels.com,
	gorcunov@openvz.org, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Cc: Martin.Runge@rohde-schwarz.com, Andreas.Brief@rohde-schwarz.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add 32 bit VDSO time function support
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 07:31:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52EA704D.2000809@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1391078953-1575-1-git-send-email-stefani@seibold.net>

On 01/30/2014 02:49 AM, stefani@seibold.net wrote:
> The VDSO page for a 32 bit resided now on 0xffffc000, followed by the VVAR and
> HPET page.

Any reason to not move the vdso base page to the top, in order to avoid
breaking broken applications?  It seems a fairly innocuous shuffle...
probably little gain, but very little cost.

	-hpa



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-30 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-30 10:49 [PATCH 0/4] Add 32 bit VDSO time function support stefani
2014-01-30 10:49 ` [PATCH 1/4] Make vsyscall_gtod_data handling x86 generic stefani
2014-01-30 18:05   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-01-30 19:27     ` Stefani Seibold
2014-01-30 19:51       ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-01-30 20:19         ` Stefani Seibold
2014-01-31  0:10   ` Andi Kleen
2014-02-01 14:51     ` Stefani Seibold
2014-01-30 10:49 ` [PATCH 2/4] Add new func _install_special_mapping() to mmap.c stefani
2014-01-30 10:49 ` [PATCH 3/4] Add 32 bit VDSO support for 32 kernel stefani
2014-01-30 15:30   ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-30 15:53     ` Stefani Seibold
2014-01-30 18:17   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-01-30 19:39     ` Stefani Seibold
2014-01-30 19:50       ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-01-30 10:49 ` [PATCH 4/4] Add 32 bit VDSO support for 64 kernel stefani
2014-01-30 18:21   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-01-30 19:43     ` Stefani Seibold
2014-01-31 23:12       ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-01-30 15:31 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-01-30 15:52   ` [PATCH 0/4] Add 32 bit VDSO time function support Stefani Seibold
2014-01-30 15:54     ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-30 17:57     ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-01-30 18:03       ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-30 18:08         ` Andy Lutomirski
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-02-01 15:32 stefani

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