Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 7891] New: vdso page is no longer mapped for

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sat Jan 27 2007 - 17:03:25 EST


On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:01:51 -0500
"Parag Warudkar" <parag.warudkar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Here is a patch that does what Andrew Morton suggested (plus some more
> as explained below) .
> Patch inline below and also attached in case there is whitespace
> damage. Compile tested on i386 with make defconfig; make. If anyone
> can test on other arches and provide feedback that'd be great.

Thanks - I can test elf on powerpc. Does anyone remember how to
create a.out executables?

Assuming this works, I'm not surew what to do with it. Jam it into
2.6.20, I guess. The lateness*largeness product is somewhat high though.

You appear to have generated this patch against an oldish kernel - there are
CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO changes in there which might muck things up. I'll see...
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