Re: [PATCH v2] x86: Remove compat vdso support

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Mar 11 2014 - 13:07:49 EST


On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We could even just relocate the damn thing wherever it ends up. That
> will waste one page of memory per process, though.

I don't think we need to worry about the one page per process. So
*if* it is true that nobody actually cares about the exact address,
maybe that's the right solution.

I still don't get why people want to mess with the page in the first
place, though.

Linus
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