From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/18] x86 vDSO: consolidate vdso32
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:15:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711210115.10446.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1195604010.6352.237.camel@bodhitayantram.eng.vmware.com>
> I think you should drop CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO support for 32-bit VDSO on
> 64-bit kernel. This was only to hack around a broken version of glibc
> that shipped with SUSE PRO 9.0,
I would be severly opposed to that. You cannot break compatibility to a large
chunk of userland. You would also break some of my test setups.
> Perhaps it is finally time to remove the hack from 32-bit as well, and
> eliminate COMPAT_VDSO entirely? Or does it really have to live forever.
Yes it has.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-21 0:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-19 21:59 [PATCH 00/18] x86 vDSO revamp Roland McGrath
2007-11-19 22:01 ` [PATCH 01/18] x86 vDSO: generate vdso-syms.lds Roland McGrath
2007-11-19 22:02 ` [PATCH 02/18] x86 vDSO: use vdso-syms.lds Roland McGrath
2007-11-19 22:02 ` [PATCH 03/18] x86 vDSO: remove vdso-syms.o Roland McGrath
2007-11-19 22:03 ` [PATCH 04/18] x86 vDSO: new layout Roland McGrath
2007-11-19 22:03 ` [PATCH 05/18] x86 vDSO: harmonize asm-offsets Roland McGrath
2007-11-19 22:04 ` [PATCH 06/18] x86 vDSO: arch/x86/vdso/vdso32 Roland McGrath
2007-11-20 13:05 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-11-20 20:57 ` Roland McGrath
2007-11-20 23:07 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-11-20 23:27 ` Roland McGrath
2007-11-20 23:50 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-11-27 1:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-27 2:01 ` Roland McGrath
2007-11-19 22:05 ` [PATCH 07/18] x86 vDSO: vdso32 build Roland McGrath
2007-11-21 6:02 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-11-21 7:10 ` Roland McGrath
2007-11-21 7:32 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-11-21 7:55 ` Roland McGrath
2007-11-19 22:05 ` [PATCH 08/18] x86 vDSO: i386 vdso32 Roland McGrath
2007-11-19 22:05 ` [PATCH 09/18] x86 vDSO: absolute relocs Roland McGrath
2007-11-19 22:05 ` [PATCH 10/18] x86 vDSO: i386 vdso32 install Roland McGrath
2007-11-19 22:06 ` [PATCH 11/18] x86 vDSO: vdso32 setup Roland McGrath
2007-11-19 22:06 ` [PATCH 12/18] x86 vDSO: ia32_sysenter_target Roland McGrath
2007-11-19 22:06 ` [PATCH 13/18] x86 vDSO: ia32 sysenter_return Roland McGrath
2007-11-21 0:05 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-11-21 0:34 ` Roland McGrath
2007-11-19 22:06 ` [PATCH 14/18] x86 vDSO: ia32 vdso32-syscall build Roland McGrath
2007-11-19 22:06 ` [PATCH 15/18] x86 vDSO: consolidate vdso32 Roland McGrath
2007-11-21 0:13 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-11-21 0:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-21 0:15 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-11-21 0:32 ` Roland McGrath
2007-11-19 22:06 ` [PATCH 16/18] x86 vDSO: ia32 vsyscall removal Roland McGrath
2007-11-19 22:07 ` [PATCH 17/18] x86 vDSO: reorder vdso32 code Roland McGrath
2007-11-19 22:07 ` [PATCH 18/18] x86 vDSO: makefile cleanup Roland McGrath
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