Re: [PATCH v2] x86: Remove compat vdso support

H. Peter Anvin
2014-03-12T21:37:50Z

On 03/12/2014 12:41 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> So my reaction was "don't do that".
>
> But people pointing out that we can't do what x86-64 does made me
> think: we could avoid the whole "nasty code for a legacy case" by
> making it the *non*-legacy case. We could get rid of the fixmap
> HPET/VVAR entirely - on x86-64 (which can use those addresses) a
> PC-relative addressing is probably actually better anyway, so mapping
> them together with the vdso code shouldn't hurt.
>

How would that deal with the legacy vsyscall case for x86-64? Just rely
on the "legacy vsyscall emulation" (which seems to have its own class of
problems...)?

-hpa