Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 - vdso and gettimeofday issues with glibc

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Thu Aug 30 2007 - 10:11:19 EST


On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:15:45 PDT, Andrew Morton said:

> So it's an interaction between the x86_64 vdso patches in Andi's tree and
> newer glibc, and we don't know which one is getting it wrong yet?
>
> If I ever get another -mm out the door (have been without electricity for
> several days) I'll drop the vdso changes until this is sorted out.

Don't bother, I tested this last night against a vanilla 2.6.23-rc3 kernel
and it had the same issue as well. So Andi's vdso patches in his tree and/or
the -mm kernel aren't to blame - it's in mainline as well. And it's been
in for a while - I also hit it with a 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 kernel.

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