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author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> | 2011-06-05 13:50:22 -0400 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2011-06-06 03:43:14 -0400 |
commit | bb5fe2f78eadf5a52d8dcbf9a57728fd107af97b (patch) | |
tree | ed6d87558e2b9610efa45330a0083b7cc3993d1a | |
parent | d319bb79afa4039bda6f85661d6bf0c13299ce93 (diff) |
x86-64: Remove vsyscall number 3 (venosys)
It just segfaults since April 2008 (a4928cff), so I'm pretty
sure that nothing uses it. And having an empty section makes
the linker script a bit fragile.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4a4abcf47ecadc269f2391a313576fe6d06acef7.1307292171.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c | 5 |
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 98b378dc7f86..4f90082fd640 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | |||
@@ -182,10 +182,6 @@ SECTIONS | |||
182 | *(.vsyscall_2) | 182 | *(.vsyscall_2) |
183 | } | 183 | } |
184 | 184 | ||
185 | .vsyscall_3 ADDR(.vsyscall_0) + 3072: AT(VLOAD(.vsyscall_3)) { | ||
186 | *(.vsyscall_3) | ||
187 | } | ||
188 | |||
189 | . = ALIGN(__vsyscall_0 + PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE); | 185 | . = ALIGN(__vsyscall_0 + PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE); |
190 | 186 | ||
191 | #undef VSYSCALL_ADDR | 187 | #undef VSYSCALL_ADDR |
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c index 9b2f3f51bc91..70a5f6eebd6c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c | |||
@@ -209,11 +209,6 @@ vgetcpu(unsigned *cpu, unsigned *node, struct getcpu_cache *tcache) | |||
209 | return 0; | 209 | return 0; |
210 | } | 210 | } |
211 | 211 | ||
212 | static long __vsyscall(3) venosys_1(void) | ||
213 | { | ||
214 | return -ENOSYS; | ||
215 | } | ||
216 | |||
217 | /* Assume __initcall executes before all user space. Hopefully kmod | 212 | /* Assume __initcall executes before all user space. Hopefully kmod |
218 | doesn't violate that. We'll find out if it does. */ | 213 | doesn't violate that. We'll find out if it does. */ |
219 | static void __cpuinit vsyscall_set_cpu(int cpu) | 214 | static void __cpuinit vsyscall_set_cpu(int cpu) |