Re: [patch] paravirt: VDSO page is essential

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Mar 05 2007 - 08:57:26 EST



* Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> The problem is not the syscall instruction, but some problem with the
> way the vDSO mapping is set up with CONFIG_PARAVIRT that broke older
> glibc.

the problem is that CONFIG_PARAVIRT silently turns off
CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO, which of course breaks 'old' glibc. This too is a
must-have fix for v2.6.21.

Ingo
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