Re: PATCH: Fix VMI and COMPAT_VDSO for 2.6.21

2007-03-10 Thread Zachary Amsden
Ingo Molnar wrote: makes sense. We can do Jan's relocatable-COMPAT_VDSO thing in v2.6.22, but for v2.6.21 that's way too intrusive. Agree. I think we can clean up some of the strange build magic though, by adding boot time ELF magic instead. We'll see which works out better. Zach - To

Re: PATCH: Fix VMI and COMPAT_VDSO for 2.6.21

2007-03-10 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Zachary Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Zachary Amsden wrote: > >VMI is broken under COMPAT_VDSO, as Xen and other non hardware > >assisted hypervisors will be. I have been working on a fix for this > >which works for older glibcs that panic when the new relocatable VDSO > >is used.

Re: PATCH: Fix VMI and COMPAT_VDSO for 2.6.21

2007-03-10 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Zachary Amsden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zachary Amsden wrote: VMI is broken under COMPAT_VDSO, as Xen and other non hardware assisted hypervisors will be. I have been working on a fix for this which works for older glibcs that panic when the new relocatable VDSO is used. However, I

Re: PATCH: Fix VMI and COMPAT_VDSO for 2.6.21

2007-03-10 Thread Zachary Amsden
Ingo Molnar wrote: makes sense. We can do Jan's relocatable-COMPAT_VDSO thing in v2.6.22, but for v2.6.21 that's way too intrusive. Agree. I think we can clean up some of the strange build magic though, by adding boot time ELF magic instead. We'll see which works out better. Zach - To

Re: PATCH: Fix VMI and COMPAT_VDSO for 2.6.21

2007-03-09 Thread Zachary Amsden
Zachary Amsden wrote: VMI is broken under COMPAT_VDSO, as Xen and other non hardware assisted hypervisors will be. I have been working on a fix for this which works for older glibcs that panic when the new relocatable VDSO is used. However, I believe at this time that the fix is going to be

PATCH: Fix VMI and COMPAT_VDSO for 2.6.21

2007-03-09 Thread Zachary Amsden
VMI is broken under COMPAT_VDSO, as Xen and other non hardware assisted hypervisors will be. I have been working on a fix for this which works for older glibcs that panic when the new relocatable VDSO is used. However, I believe at this time that the fix is going to be too radical to

PATCH: Fix VMI and COMPAT_VDSO for 2.6.21

2007-03-09 Thread Zachary Amsden
VMI is broken under COMPAT_VDSO, as Xen and other non hardware assisted hypervisors will be. I have been working on a fix for this which works for older glibcs that panic when the new relocatable VDSO is used. However, I believe at this time that the fix is going to be too radical to

Re: PATCH: Fix VMI and COMPAT_VDSO for 2.6.21

2007-03-09 Thread Zachary Amsden
Zachary Amsden wrote: VMI is broken under COMPAT_VDSO, as Xen and other non hardware assisted hypervisors will be. I have been working on a fix for this which works for older glibcs that panic when the new relocatable VDSO is used. However, I believe at this time that the fix is going to be