Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933868AbaFRDtE (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2014 23:49:04 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:41344 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756370AbaFRDtC (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2014 23:49:02 -0400 Message-ID: <53A10C21.8070101@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 20:48:49 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andy Lutomirski CC: Josh Boyer , "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" Subject: Re: vdso_install target broken post-3.15 References: <5398749B.4090209@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06/17/2014 08:45 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> Just a heads up: gdb can't debug the vdso on 3.16-rc1. I filed a bug: >> >> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17064 >> >> We may need to extend the fake section header hack to all vdso >> versions and stick the ELF notes in there. > > I have a semi-working implementation of a workaround, bit it adds a > fair amount of extra crud to the image, and it's pushing my > configuration past a page boundary. I suspect that, if we're willing > to abuse the ELF format a bit more, I can get the overhead down, > though. > > Are we okay with regressing here until binutils gets fixed? > Probably not... although I guess it depends just how bad it really is. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/