Re: [PATCH] Add VDSO time function support for x86 32-bit kernel

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Dec 13 2012 - 01:47:43 EST


Should be a simple matter of sharing pages. Look perhaps at the x32 vdso for a hint.

Stefani Seibold <stefani@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Am Mittwoch, den 12.12.2012, 22:14 -0800 schrieb H. Peter Anvin:
>> This is too late for 3.8 anyway, so there is time to make it work
>correctly before tge 3.9 merge window anyway. After this merge window
>is over I may pull tjis into a testing branch, but compat support is a
>precondition.
>>
>> The vdso is only optional if you build in backwards compatibility
>anyway, and software has a right to expect a specific numeric kernel
>version to export a single ABI.
>>
>
>Any idea or clean solution how i can map the 64 bit vgtod into the 32
>bit address space? Thats the only problem i see.
>
>- Stefani

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