Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Mar 2004 04:15:57 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] linux-2.6.4-pre1_vsyscall-gtod_B3-part3 (3/3) |
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On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:54:49PM -0800, john stultz wrote: > On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 18:47, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > And sysenter is at a fixed address in 2.6 x86 too (it doesn't even > > change between different kernel compiles). > > Actually, the 4G patch pushes vsysenter down a page, and glibc seems to > handle this properly.
this is nice for x86 indeed. This has never been a concern in x86-64 since there's no need to move the address space there.
so in short this means 64G machines using 4:4 will need two tries to get to the root shell, every bother box will succeed at the first try ;). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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