Roland McGrath wrote:
> The patch looks nice and clean. However, it does not relocate the symbol
> table(s) values. I thought that was done in an earlier version of this I
> saw, but I might be misremembering. Though not fatal, this is a regression
> from the previous CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO behavior. It will show up in things
> like __kernel_* name display in backtraces.
Hm, OK. It does, but I wasn't sure if it would matter. It should be
fairly simple to fix up.
> If with your other patch
> CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO will become other than a rarely-used compatibility
> option, then this should be fixed. Note that with your second patch this
> will also break the symbol values in the randomly-located vma vdso;
> non-ancient glibc doesn't care if the vdso isn't mapped where its phdrs
> say, but everything does still care that the symbol tables in an ELF file
> use addresses matching the phdrs in the same file.
>
I did the second patch because I could, and to see if it would provoke
some comment. But effectively removing a kernel config option seems
like a good idea to me.
J
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