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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH] Fixup COMPAT_VDSO to work with CONFIG_PARAVIRT
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:33:42 -0700
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Ingo Molnar wrote:
> that's what is the case right now, but much of the intention behind the =

> vma based vDSO is to enable per-process randomized vdso locations, and =

> various distributions do that. So the 'modern' vDSO concept is very much =

> relocatable.

No, the point is that it never needs relocating.  The kernel can map it
anywhere and userspace can cope.  Its only the broken glibcs which
require relocation.

    J