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

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Aug 23 2011 - 15:44:31 EST


On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> And it's not cheap - doing that on each syscall will be unpleasant...
> Frankly, I'd rather stopped telling the uml userland about vdso in such
> setups.  And anything that plays with SYSCALL outside of vdso... <shrug>
> we already have a "don't run it native on 32bit", adding "don't run
> it on 32bit uml on amd64 host" is not too serious.  At least for now...

I do agree that the solution might well be to just stop using the
non-int80 vdsos for UML. That may just solve everything in practice.

Linus
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