Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758490AbXIQUWu (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:22:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757062AbXIQUWU (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:22:20 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.182]:15214 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757143AbXIQUWT (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:22:19 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=uChReWdq8bGkJuVDvW9A3FXGmuMO8kZ625Ptrpmm/RgLobkITD/91e3bW1+u7KCeK6iuuUXogTBsLNEaVvXH5Jrqw5yCKN0OKqkNYGxTPUaR+cUlfNfeCrerQSoWS+4lPn371qiHXaIrNFErUrO4NIvOq4wN01QRWvVB9RuVrLo= Message-ID: <38b2ab8a0709171322v75c5a597of9d90919f456767c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:22:17 +0200 From: "Francis Moreau" To: "Ulrich Drepper" Subject: Re: x86_64: vsyscall vs vdso Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <38b2ab8a0709161324p6841c1f9h6f9422b0e6c4b5cd@mail.gmail.com> <38b2ab8a0709170030k2b5dad5dja31edebf12ad9626@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 685 Lines: 18 On 9/17/07, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > On 9/17/07, Francis Moreau wrote: > > 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. > Sorry for my ignorance but what' is 'a restorer' ? -- Francis - 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/