Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86-64: Clean up vsyscall emulation and removefixed-address ret

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Jun 06 2011 - 13:51:18 EST



* Andrew Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> >>  arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h   |   10 ++++-
> >>  arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c     |   78 +++++++++++--------------------------
> >>  arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_emu_64.S |   17 +--------
> >>  3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-)
> >
> > Ok, this makes the whole series a lot more palatable!
> >
> > Can i propagate the rename suggested by hpa into patch #3:
> >
> >  CONFIG_COMPAT_VSYSCALL => CONFIG_LEGACY_VSYSCALL
>
> Certainly! CONFIG_LEGACY_VTIME might be even better, but I'm fine
> with any renaming you'd like to do.

Good point, i changed it to CONFIG_LEGACY_VTIME - this correctly
implies that it's only about vtime(), not about any other vsyscall.

Thanks,

Ingo
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