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SubjectRe: Why disable vdso by default with CONFIG_PARAVIRT?
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Zachary Amsden wrote:
>
>> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Andi,
>>>
>>> What problem do they cause together? There's certainly no problem with
>>> Xen+vdso (in fact, its actually very useful so that it picks up the
>>> right libc with Xen-friendly TLS).
>>>
>>>
>> Methinks the compat VDSO support got broken in the config? Paravirt +
>> COMPAT_VDSO are incompatible.
>>
>
> Yes, that's true, but I'm looking at arch/i386/kernel/sysenter.c:
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
> unsigned int __read_mostly vdso_enabled = 0;
> #else
> unsigned int __read_mostly vdso_enabled = 1;
> #endif
>
> I can't think of any reason why that should be necessary.
>

It's not for us or Xen. Perhaps it came from lhype?
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