Re: PATCH: Fix VMI and COMPAT_VDSO for 2.6.21


* Zachary Amsden <zach@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Zachary Amsden wrote:
VMI is broken under COMPAT_VDSO, as Xen and other non hardware
assisted hypervisors will be. I have been working on a fix for this
which works for older glibcs that panic when the new relocatable VDSO
is used. However, I believe at this time that the fix is going to be
too radical to consider at this stage in the release of 2.6.21. We
don't expect this config option to be turned on by vendors for new
distributions, so at this point we are willing to drop support for it
when VMI is compiled in, and work on a patch for 2.6.22 which more
fully addresses the problem.

Please apply, thanks.

makes sense. We can do Jan's relocatable-COMPAT_VDSO thing in v2.6.22,
but for v2.6.21 that's way too intrusive.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

I suppose it would be better if I attached the patch.

it certainly helps ;-)

Ingo
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