From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263171AbUELXPl (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 May 2004 19:15:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263089AbUELXPl (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 May 2004 19:15:41 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:50102 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263171AbUELXOG (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 May 2004 19:14:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 16:16:03 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: davidm@hpl.hp.com Cc: rddunlap@osdl.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, drepper@redhat.com, fastboot@lists.osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Fastboot] Re: [announce] kexec for linux 2.6.6 Message-Id: <20040512161603.44c50cec.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <16546.42537.765495.231960@napali.hpl.hp.com> References: <20040511212625.28ac33ef.rddunlap@osdl.org> <40A1AF53.3010407@redhat.com> <40A243C8.401@redhat.com> <40A2517C.4040903@redhat.com> <20040512143233.0ee0405a.rddunlap@osdl.org> <16546.41076.572371.307153@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20040512152815.76280eac.akpm@osdl.org> <16546.42537.765495.231960@napali.hpl.hp.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Mosberger wrote: > > >>>>> On Wed, 12 May 2004 15:28:15 -0700, Andrew Morton said: > > >> ia64 does have VDSO (and has had it for some time). > > >> I quite like Uli's idea. > > Andrew> Is anyone doing VDSO development for x86? I don't recall > Andrew> seeing anything. > > It's already there? But it needs work for the kexec requirement. If that work is purely the addition of the kexec entry point then OK, that can be part of the kexec patch. But if we need additional infrastructure to "add new syscalls via VDSO" then this should be in the base kernel, even if it's empty, yes?