Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 - vdso and gettimeofday issues with glibc

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Aug 29 2007 - 19:16:21 EST


On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:37:38 -0400 Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:04:33 EDT, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx said:
>
> (Fixing the Subject: and updating the info)
>
> > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:06:48 PDT, Andrew Morton said:
> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc3/2.6.23-rc3-mm1/
>
> > The issue: vdso and gettimeofday seem to be having a quarrel.
>
> This is also open as a Fedora bug:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=262481
>

So it's an interaction between the x86_64 vdso patches in Andi's tree and
newer glibc, and we don't know which one is getting it wrong yet?

If I ever get another -mm out the door (have been without electricity for
several days) I'll drop the vdso changes until this is sorted out.
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