Mikael Pettersson dixit: >- having a vsyscall page at a fixed location (vdso is too horrible), and >- updating a long word in it in each switch_to()
sounds ok to me >- SMP is initially prohibited, the get_thread_area entry needs to be a > proper function, so that a future SMP-capable system can be allowed, Do we need *MP on m68k at all? >I could probably implement something like that, but I'm not sure how >the kernel maintainers would feel about a per-process vsyscall page... Not a kernel maintainer, but isn’t that the whole point, to have the page per-process so no kernel mode round-trips are required? bye, //mirabilos -- 13:37⎜«Natureshadow» Deep inside, I hate mirabilos. I mean, he's a good guy. But he's always right! In every fsckin' situation, he's right. Even with his deeply perverted taste in software and borked ambition towards broken OSes - in the end, he's damn right about it :(! […] works in mksh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
