VDSO for arm 32bit
Mikael Pettersson
mikpe at it.uu.se
Mon May 27 09:53:19 EDT 2013
Kumar, Ganesh writes:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm working on OMAP5 on greg's LTS kernel 3.4.25, but I see there is
> no support for vdso for arm 32 bit.
> I'm planning to port it to arm 32 bit, is there any work under progress?
> would like to understand why the support for arm 32 bit is not there, any idea?
32-bit ARM has a "kuser" page at a fixed virtual address, which exports a
few critical routines to user-space. With that, a vdso is mostly redundant.
More information about the linux-arm-kernel
mailing list