Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Collected vdso/vsyscall fixes for 3.1

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Thu Aug 11 2011 - 16:28:12 EST


On 08/03/2011 06:59 AM, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
> <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 09:53:22AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 09:31:48AM -0400, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>>>> This fixes various problems that cropped up with the vdso patches.
>>>>
>>>> - Patch 1 fixes an information leak to userspace.
>>>> - Patches 2 and 3 fix the kernel build on gold.
>>>> - Patches 4 and 5 fix Xen (I hope).
>>>> - Patch 6 (optional) adds a trace event to vsyscall emulation. It will
>>>> make it easier to handle performance regression reports :)
>>> Hm, you seemed to have the x86 maintainers on your email..
>> I definitly need some coffee. What I meant was that you missing putting
>> the x86 maintainers on this patchset. They are the ones that will handle this.
>>
>> I put them on the To list for you.
> Are you sure about that coffee? I'm pretty sure I had x86@xxxxxxxxxx in there.

What's the state of this series? Has tip.git picked it up, or does it
need another go-around?

I just booted a Linus tree and got a backtrace that looks like this
issue, though I haven't looked into it in detail yet.

Thanks,
J
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