[PATCH] Add vDSO for x86-64 with gettimeofday/clock_gettime/getcpu fix

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Fri Apr 27 2007 - 11:51:07 EST


On (27/04/07 09:59), Mel Gorman didst pronounce:
> On (27/04/07 02:39), Andi Kleen didst pronounce:
> >
> >
> > > That's vdso.lds.S, not vdso.lds. The VDSO_TEXT_OFFSET is still 0x400.
> > > This is what I should have posted the last time
> > >
> > > --- build/arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h.orig 2007-04-26 08:43:31.523739878 -0700
> > > +++ build/arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h 2007-04-26 08:43:38.839579356 -0700
> > > @@ -1 +1 @@
> > > -#define VDSO_TEXT_OFFSET 0x500
> > > +#define VDSO_TEXT_OFFSET 0x400
> >
> > It's definitely 0x400 here. Is your patch reversed and you want 0x500?
> >
>
> Sorry, that patch is reversed. It's 0x500 it needs to be to work here.
>

What I should have done in the first place..... Sorry for the noise.

=======

The machine elm3b6 on test.kernel.org had problems with the patch
x86_64-mm-vdso.patch. The fix is two-fold. The first patch fixes a compile
problem by adding -m64. This patch updates VDSO_TEXT_OFFSET so that the
linker does not complain.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
---
voffset.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6.21-rc7-mm2-quilt/arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.21-rc7-mm2-quilt.orig/arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h 2007-04-27 10:35:09.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.21-rc7-mm2-quilt/arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h 2007-04-27 10:35:12.000000000 +0100
@@ -1 +1 @@
-#define VDSO_TEXT_OFFSET 0x400
+#define VDSO_TEXT_OFFSET 0x500
--
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab
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