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DateFri, 7 Dec 2007 10:44:39 +0100
FromIngo Molnar <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH x86/mm] x86 vDSO: canonicalize sysenter .eh_frame
* Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote:

> Some assembler versions automagically optimize .eh_frame contents, 
> changing their size.  The CFI in sysenter.S was not using optimal 
> formatting, so it would be changed by newer/smarter assemblers. This 
> ran afoul of the wired constant for padding out the other vDSO images 
> to match its size.  This changes the original hand-coded source to use 
> the optimal format encoding for its operations.  That leaves nothing 
> more for a fancy assembler to do, so the sizes will match the wired-in 
> expected size regardless of the assembler version.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> ---

thanks, applied.

	Ingo


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