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

Linus Torvalds
2014-03-12T16:04:56Z

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> But I think that "x86, vdso: Add 32 bit VDSO time support for 32 bit
> kernel" patch needs to die. And the helper patches building up to it
> (just because that patch used [io_]remap_pfn_range()) should die too.
> Why weren't those pages in the vdso*_pages[] array anyway?

Sorry, confused. FIXMAP, not vdso_pages.

Anyway, that's what x86-64 does. Why not 32?

Linus