[RFC PATCH v2 8/8] arm64: Wire up and expose the new compat vDSO

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Nov 4 08:50:39 PDT 2016


On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 05:30:58PM +0100, Kevin Brodsky wrote:
> * The vDSO page replaces the vector page. The vDSO provides its own
>   sigreturn trampolines, replacing those in the vector page, but the
>   kuser helpers are gone. As a result enabling the compat vDSO will
>   break userspace programs relying on the kuser helpers.

I think vDSO and vectors page should not exclude each other. If you want
to disable the vectors page, let's make it an independent config option
like the KUSER_HELPERS in arch/arm64/mm/Kconfig. But I would very much
like to be able to have both the vDSO and the vectors page at the same
time.

-- 
Catalin



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