Am Donnerstag, den 30.01.2014, 07:31 -0800 schrieb H. Peter Anvin: > On 01/30/2014 02:49 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > The VDSO page for a 32 bit resided now on 0xffffc000, followed by the VVAR > > and > > HPET page. > > Any reason to not move the vdso base page to the top, in order to avoid > breaking broken applications? It seems a fairly innocuous shuffle... > probably little gain, but very little cost. > > -hpa >
The reason is that i get need than an additional VMA for HPET and VVAR. I seen no break of applications since the __FIXADDR_TOP is not on a fix place. Lguest, XEN, OPLC and the reservetop Kernel Parameter will change the VDSO Page Address. - Stefani -- 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/
