Re: vsyscall=emulate regression

From: Amit Shah
Date: Tue Feb 14 2012 - 07:22:53 EST


On (Fri) 03 Feb 2012 [13:57:48], Amit Shah wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm booting some latest kernels on a Fedora 11 (released June 2009)
> guest. After the recent change of default to vsyscall=emulate, the
> guest fails to boot (init segfaults).
>
> I also tried vsyscall=none, as suggested by hpa, and that fails as
> well. Only vsyscall=native works fine.
>
> The commit that introduced the kernel parameter,
>
> 3ae36655b97a03fa1decf72f04078ef945647c1a
>
> is bad too.

I suggest we revert 2e57ae0515124af45dd889bfbd4840fd40fcc07d till we
track down and fix the vsyscal=emulate case.

Amit
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