Re: [3.1 patch] x86: default to vsyscall=native

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Oct 11 2011 - 02:24:43 EST



* Andrew Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Andrew?
>
> I think I know what the root cause is and I have most of a patch to
> fix it. It doesn't compile (yet), it's a little less trivial than
> I'd like for something this late in the -rc cycle, and it adds 16
> bytes to thread_struct (ugh!).
>
> I think I can make a follow-up patch that removes 32 bytes of
> per-thread state to restore my karma, though, but that will
> definitely not be 3.1 material.

Ok, i've queued up the vsyscall=native patch in tip:x86/urgent for
now - we can re-try in v3.2 (perhaps) if a satisfactory solution is
found.

Thanks,

Ingo
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