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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 4/4] Add 32 bit VDSO time support for 64 bit kernel
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 12:29:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52ED590D.8090208@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1391268756-10766-5-git-send-email-stefani@seibold.net>

On 02/01/2014 07:32 AM, stefani@seibold.net wrote:
> 
> This kind of type hacking could be prevent in the future by doing a call to the
> 64 bit code by the following sequence:
> 
> - Compile the arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c as 64 bit, but only generate
>   the assembler output.
> - Next compile a 32 bit object by including the 64 bit vclock_gettime.s
>   prefixed with .code64
> - At least we need a trampolin code which invokes the 64 bit code and do
>   the API conversation (64 bit longs to 32 bit longs), like the
>   followig snipped:
> 

Honestly, I think the overhead of the mode switch would ruin a lot of
the advantages with the vdso.

	-hpa



      reply	other threads:[~2014-02-01 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-01 15:32 [PATCH 0/4] Add 32 bit VDSO time function support stefani
2014-02-01 15:32 ` [PATCH 1/4] Make vsyscall_gtod_data handling x86 generic stefani
2014-02-01 23:40   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-02-01 15:32 ` [PATCH 2/4] Add new func _install_special_mapping() to mmap.c stefani
2014-02-01 15:32 ` [PATCH 3/4] Add 32 bit VDSO time support for 32 bit kernel stefani
2014-02-01 23:59   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-02-02  0:26     ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-02  0:30       ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-02-02  0:41         ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-02  0:56           ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-03 21:11             ` Roland McGrath
2014-02-02 11:20       ` Stefani Seibold
2014-02-02 15:25         ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-01 15:32 ` [PATCH 4/4] Add 32 bit VDSO time support for 64 " stefani
2014-02-01 20:29   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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