Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:33:42 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [RFC, PATCH] Fixup COMPAT_VDSO to work with CONFIG_PARAVIRT |
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Ingo Molnar wrote: > 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.
No, the point is that it never needs relocating. The kernel can map it anywhere and userspace can cope. Its only the broken glibcs which require relocation.
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