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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 09:46:51 -0700
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Jan Beulich wrote:
> I have one, too (which is one reasone why I created the original Xen patch).
>   

It's some version of SuSE 9, right?  What glibc version?

>>> I'm playing safe.  Binary identical relocation to 0xffffe000 was my goal.
>>>       
>> Yeah, fair enough.  But as Eric likes to keep pointing out, an
>> executable ELF file need not have any sections at all, so the only safe
>> course for anything "real" is via the section headers.
>>     
>
> Program headers you mean.
>   

Er, yep.

>> So I guess the right thing to do is relocate the dynamic stuff via
>> PT_DYNAMIC, and relocate the symtab if its present.
>>     
>
> Symtab should also be deduced from program headers.
>   

Well, the normal symtab might be completely missing.  But yes, the
dynamic symtab should be in the PT_DYNAMIC.

    J