Re: x86_64: vsyscall vs vdso

[Ulrich Drepper]

On 9/17/07, Francis Moreau <francis.moro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Does that mean we'll need to keep 3 different implementations of gtod
> in the kernel forever ?

That's a question for the kernel maintainers to answer.


> I think signal trampolines will still need them too. So making
> vsyscalls configurable doesn't seem to work, does it ?

vsyscalls aren't used for that.  We have a restorer in libc and could
easily use one in the vdso.  That's what is done on x86.
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