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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 17:46:41 +0900
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 9/9] x86-64: Add CONFIG_UNSAFE_VSYSCALLS to feature-removal-schedule
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, x86@kernel.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
        Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>,
        richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>,
        Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
        Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>,
        Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
        pageexec@freemail.hu
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On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> wrote:
> CONFIG_UNSAFE_VSYSCALLS was added in the previous patch as a
> temporary hack to avoid penalizing users who don't build glibc from
> git.

I really hate that name.

Do you have *any* reason to call this "unsafe"?

Seriously. The whole patch series just seems annoying.

                  Linus
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