From: "Ulrich Drepper" <drepper@gmail.com>
To: "Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x86_64: vsyscall vs vdso
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:35:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a36005b50709170735p7c98608ftf12398f7080131b9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38b2ab8a0709170030k2b5dad5dja31edebf12ad9626@mail.gmail.com>
On 9/17/07, Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does that mean we'll need to keep 3 different implementations of gtod
> in the kernel forever ?
That's a question for the kernel maintainers to answer.
> I think signal trampolines will still need them too. So making
> vsyscalls configurable doesn't seem to work, does it ?
vsyscalls aren't used for that. We have a restorer in libc and could
easily use one in the vdso. That's what is done on x86.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-17 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-16 20:24 Francis Moreau
2007-09-16 20:46 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-09-17 7:30 ` Francis Moreau
2007-09-17 14:35 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2007-09-17 20:22 ` Francis Moreau
2007-09-18 8:31 ` Mikael Pettersson
2007-09-17 20:31 ` Francis Moreau
2007-09-18 16:58 ` Ulrich Drepper
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