From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932111AbXA0WDF (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:03:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932095AbXA0WDF (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:03:05 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:35886 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751851AbXA0WDD (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:03:03 -0500 Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:02:33 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: "Parag Warudkar" Cc: dsd@gentoo.org, joerg@hydrops.han.de, ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 7891] New: vdso page is no longer mapped for Message-Id: <20070127140233.203ef7d3.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <82e4877d0701271201n3aa5bdf6v7c5fb8e41ee98c80@mail.gmail.com> References: <82e4877d0701271201n3aa5bdf6v7c5fb8e41ee98c80@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:01:51 -0500 "Parag Warudkar" wrote: > Here is a patch that does what Andrew Morton suggested (plus some more > as explained below) . > Patch inline below and also attached in case there is whitespace > damage. Compile tested on i386 with make defconfig; make. If anyone > can test on other arches and provide feedback that'd be great. Thanks - I can test elf on powerpc. Does anyone remember how to create a.out executables? Assuming this works, I'm not surew what to do with it. Jam it into 2.6.20, I guess. The lateness*largeness product is somewhat high though. You appear to have generated this patch against an oldish kernel - there are CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO changes in there which might muck things up. I'll see...