The following patches do a bunch of cleanup and rejiggering to the x86 vDSO implementation, but don't change any actual code in the routines in the vDSO. They consolidate the 32-bit vDSO code and support for it between i386 and x86_64/ia32. This makes them behave the same where they didn't before (placement), and reduces a lot of duplication. They simplify the magic for tracking addresses inside the vDSO, which makes it possible to remove the fragile kludges in the layout of the vDSO images. They consolidate the layout details and build logic for 64-bit and 32-bit vDSOs.
Most of these patches require the earlier ones in the series, and mostly in this order. Patch 17 is optional without upsetting the others, and is the only one that changes anything users might see in 32-bit processes (aside from x86_64 behaving more like real i386). It changes the code addresses inside the vDSO, commonly seen in backtraces. Nothing should care, but anything that had previously hard-coded the expected low 0xfff bits of those addresses could be wrong now (e.g. tests that check for verbatim backtrace output including __kernel_* addresses). There are several renames in here, so GIT can apply them but maybe patch can't. (If there is a switch to git-format-patch to produce something more universally applicable, I haven't found it.) Thanks, Roland - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
