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From: linux-kernel@ton.iguana.be (Ton Hospel)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-2.5.43_vsyscall_A0
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 22:36:30 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aosmpe$o8e$1@post.home.lunix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200210190352.WAA05769@ccure.karaya.com>

In article <200210190352.WAA05769@ccure.karaya.com>,
	Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com> writes:
> 
> This needs to be virtualizable somehow, which means that apps run inside
> UML, without being changed, get the UML vsyscalls.  There are a couple of
> possiblities that I can think of:
> 	a get_vsyscall system call which is executed by libc on startup -
> UML would return a different calue from the host
> 	some mechanism for UML to map its own vsyscall area in place of
> the host's - it wouldn't necessarily need to be able to unmap it when it's
> running its own kernel code because it can probably arrange not to use the
> host's vsyscalls.
> 
> 				Jeff
> 
In case you want UML to also be able to work as a jail, it should
actually be impossible to get to the "real" systemcalls. In that case
just asking libc is not acceptable if the other area remains available

      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-10-19 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-18 22:57 john stultz
2002-10-18 22:58 ` [EXAMPLE CODE] linux-2.5.43_vsyscall_A0 john stultz
2002-10-19  3:52 ` [PATCH] linux-2.5.43_vsyscall_A0 Jeff Dike
2002-10-19  3:10   ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-19  4:49     ` Jeff Dike
2002-10-19  4:02       ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-19  4:16         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-20  2:59           ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-20  6:44             ` Elladan
2002-10-20  9:27               ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2002-10-20 10:58                 ` Elladan
2002-10-20 11:20                   ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-20 14:51             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-21 16:49               ` george anzinger
2002-10-20 13:19         ` Andreas Jaeger
2002-10-20 14:59           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-19  4:10       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-19  4:45         ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-19  5:01           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-19 23:43             ` Jeff Dike
2002-10-20  0:15               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-20  2:03                 ` Jeff Dike
2002-10-20  2:33                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-22  5:07                     ` Jeff Dike
2002-10-22  4:15                       ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-22  4:29                         ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-22  9:39                           ` Alan Cox
2002-10-22 16:12                             ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-22  5:08                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-22  5:27                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-22  7:24                         ` Elladan
2002-10-22  7:40                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-10-23  5:12                             ` Elladan
2002-10-23  5:43                               ` Elladan
2002-10-23 17:51                               ` Gerrit Huizenga
2002-10-21 15:43             ` Stephen Hemminger
2002-10-21 16:26               ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-21 17:10           ` john stultz
2002-10-19 19:14         ` Bill Davidsen
2002-10-20  1:50       ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-20  2:56         ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-24 11:24       ` Pavel Machek
2002-10-24 11:24     ` Pavel Machek
2002-10-19 22:36   ` Ton Hospel [this message]

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