Thread (19 messages) 19 messages, 3 authors, 2016-12-01

[RFC PATCH v2 8/8] arm64: Wire up and expose the new compat vDSO

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From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas)
Date: 2016-11-04 15:50:39

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 05:30:58PM +0100, Kevin Brodsky wrote:
* The vDSO page replaces the vector page. The vDSO provides its own
  sigreturn trampolines, replacing those in the vector page, but the
  kuser helpers are gone. As a result enabling the compat vDSO will
  break userspace programs relying on the kuser helpers.
I think vDSO and vectors page should not exclude each other. If you want
to disable the vectors page, let's make it an independent config option
like the KUSER_HELPERS in arch/arm64/mm/Kconfig. But I would very much
like to be able to have both the vDSO and the vectors page at the same
time.

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Catalin
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