Re: [PATCH v2] x86: Remove compat vdso support

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 03/11/2014 09:45 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> We could even just relocate the damn thing wherever it ends up.  That
> will waste one page of memory per process, though.
> 

We could definitely relocate it once and use the address across all
processes (e.g. top of the user address space.)

However, just changing one reserved page to two really is a trivial
change which preserves the status quo.

	-hpa

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