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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
	544145@bugs.debian.org, Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: 32bit binaries on x86_64/Xen segfaults in syscall-vdso
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:51:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AA02C57.30106@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090830181637.GA7155@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org>

On 08/30/09 11:16, Bastian Blank wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> I upgraded one of my 32bit chroots on a x86-64 machine runing under Xen
> lately. All binaries started to segfault. Some extensive checks later
> show the vdso as the culprit. Later I found <gpe0vg$j67$1@ger.gmane.org>
> with the same problem. The full story can be found in the Debian bug
> 544145[1].
>
> It happens with Linux 2.6.30 and 2.6.31-rc8 on Xen 3.2 and 3.4.
>
> For the tests I set the vdso to compat mode to have it loaded on a fixed
> location.
>
> The following program is a minimal test case for the vdso in compat
> mode, it can be compiled against dietlibc to minimize other effects.
>   

Is this an AMD machine?  Does booting with vdso32=0 on the kernel
command line work around the problem?

     J

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-03 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-30 18:16 Bastian Blank
2009-09-03 20:51 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2009-09-03 22:02   ` Bastian Blank
2009-09-03 22:06     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-09-03 22:36       ` Bastian Blank
2009-09-04 16:07         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-09-04 16:20           ` Bastian Blank
2009-09-04 16:56             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-09-04 17:46           ` Bastian Blank
2009-09-04 18:19             ` Bastian Blank

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