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Date:   Fri, 26 Jul 2019 09:20:44 -0700
From:   Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
To:     Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, x86@kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [VDSO] [x86_32] v5-3-rc1 needs vdso32=0 to get systemd-journald
 running
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On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 06:13:54PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> My first attempts to boot v5.3-rc1 on my (ancient) ThinkPad X41 made systemd-
> journald crash. I kept ending up with nasty my messages on the console:
> 
>          Starting Journal Service...
> [...]
> [    7.143552] systemd-journald[213]: Assertion 'clock_gettime(map_clock_id(clock_id), &ts) == 0' failed at ../src/basic/time-util.c:55, function now(). Aborting.
> [FAILED] Failed to start Journal Service.
> See 'systemctl status systemd-journald.service' for details.
> [    7.220367] systemd-coredump[217]: Cannot resolve systemd-coredump user. Proceeding to dump core as root: No such process
> [  OK  ] Stopped Journal Service.
> 
> And without systemd-journald I couldn't get userspace up and running.
> 
> A bit of tinkering showed that "vdso32=0" on the kernel command line allows me
> to get a usable userspace.
> 
> Any idea where I should look next to pinpoint this?

More than likely it's this:

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190719170343.GA13680@linux.intel.com