Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:31:21 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [RFC, PATCH] Fixup COMPAT_VDSO to work with CONFIG_PARAVIRT |
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* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
> > The practical question here is if we already have all of the > > relocation logic for the VDSO why do we need to add more? > > The kernel doesn't normally ever relocate the vdso; [...]
that's what is the case right now, but much of the intention behind the vma based vDSO is to enable per-process randomized vdso locations, and various distributions do that. So the 'modern' vDSO concept is very much relocatable.
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