Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86, vdso32: handle 32 bit vDSO larger one page

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Mar 13 2014 - 16:00:11 EST


On 03/13/2014 12:37 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> There are big advantages to "minimal code" at fixed addresses. The
> vdso=native thing fills the page with 0xcc just to not give useful
> instructions (still on my phone, so that may be a bogus memory)
>
> That said, I doubt we care just for OpenSUSE 9. Let it be slower.

Yes.

-hpa


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