On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 2:37 PM, H. Peter Anvin <h...@linux.intel.com> wrote: >> >> How would that deal with the legacy vsyscall case for x86-64? Just rely >> on the "legacy vsyscall emulation" (which seems to have its own class of >> problems...)? > > It does? > > We *default* to emulation, and have for over two years now (since > v3.4). If there are problems with it, we need to fix those.
Even in the non-default "vsyscall=native" case, the vsyscall pages just contains syscalls. It does not need to access the vvar page, the hpet, or anything else that the vdso uses. > > Linus -- Andy Lutomirski AMA Capital Management, LLC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
