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

Linus Torvalds
2014-03-12T21:47:00Z

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 2:37 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> 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...)?

It does?

We *default* to emulation, and have for over two years now (since
v3.4). If there are problems with it, we need to fix those.

Linus