* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > The practical question here is if we already have all of the 
> > relocation logic for the VDSO why do we need to add more?
> 
> The kernel doesn't normally ever relocate the vdso; [...]

that's what is the case right now, but much of the intention behind the 
vma based vDSO is to enable per-process randomized vdso locations, and 
various distributions do that. So the 'modern' vDSO concept is very much 
relocatable.

        Ingo
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