Re: [PATCH x86/mm] x86 vDSO: canonicalize sysenter .eh_frame

[Ingo Molnar]

* Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Some assembler versions automagically optimize .eh_frame contents, 
> changing their size.  The CFI in sysenter.S was not using optimal 
> formatting, so it would be changed by newer/smarter assemblers. This 
> ran afoul of the wired constant for padding out the other vDSO images 
> to match its size.  This changes the original hand-coded source to use 
> the optimal format encoding for its operations.  That leaves nothing 
> more for a fancy assembler to do, so the sizes will match the wired-in 
> expected size regardless of the assembler version.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> ---

thanks, applied.

	Ingo
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