Forcing kernel to avoid vDSO mapping.

2005-08-03 Thread vamsi krishna
Hello All, Sorry to interrupt you. There seem to be some architecture specific problems using ptrace in the vDSO segment on IA32, ptrace and read fails from this segment with BAD ADDRESS. I was just wondering if there could be any why we can tell kernel not to map this vDSO for optimization of

Forcing kernel to avoid vDSO mapping.

2005-08-03 Thread vamsi krishna
Hello All, Sorry to interrupt you. There seem to be some architecture specific problems using ptrace in the vDSO segment on IA32, ptrace and read fails from this segment with BAD ADDRESS. I was just wondering if there could be any why we can tell kernel not to map this vDSO for optimization of