Re: [uml-devel] SYSCALL, ptrace and syscall restart breakages (Re:[RFC] weird crap with vdso on uml/i386)

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:18 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We could drop that information in a metaregister.  It's not backward
> compatible, but at least it will be obvious when that information is
> available and not.

Well, seriously, UML already looks at the word at "ip-2" for other
reasons. So it isn't like there is any point in adding more support to
just give you that information in another form.

                            Linus
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