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authorRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>2008-01-30 07:30:43 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-01-30 07:30:43 -0500
commitaf65d64845a90c8f2fc90b97e2148ff74672e979 (patch)
treee70a57a9635acaf8154c150f95e11dcb51937fd8 /Documentation
parent00f8b1bc0e44ba94fb33e1fbd8ac82841d7cc570 (diff)
x86 vDSO: consolidate vdso32
This makes x86_64's ia32 emulation support share the sources used in the 32-bit kernel for the 32-bit vDSO and much of its setup code. The 32-bit vDSO mapping now behaves the same on x86_64 as on native 32-bit. The abi.syscall32 sysctl on x86_64 now takes the same values that vm.vdso_enabled takes on the 32-bit kernel. That is, 1 means a randomized vDSO location, 2 means the fixed old address. The CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO option is now available to make this the default setting, the same meaning it has for the 32-bit kernel. (This does not affect the 64-bit vDSO.) The argument vdso32=[012] can be used on both 32-bit and 64-bit kernels to set this paramter at boot time. The vdso=[012] argument still does this same thing on the 32-bit kernel. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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@@ -1988,6 +1988,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
1988 vdso=1: enable VDSO (default) 1988 vdso=1: enable VDSO (default)
1989 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping 1989 vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
1990 1990
1991 vdso32= [X86-32,X86-64]
1992 vdso32=2: enable compat VDSO (default with COMPAT_VDSO)
1993 vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO (default)
1994 vdso32=0: disable 32-bit VDSO mapping
1995
1991 vector= [IA-64,SMP] 1996 vector= [IA-64,SMP]
1992 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain 1997 vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain
1993 1998