On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 04:45:17PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 02:35:54PM +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > > Bruce Evans reported that statically linked binaries on HEAD an stable/9 > > use the syscall for gettimeofday(2) and clock_gettime(2). Apparently, this > > is due to my use of the weak reference to the __vdso* symbols in the > > libc implementations. > > > > Patch below reworks the __vdso* attributes to only make the symbols > > weak, but keep the references strong. Since I have to add a stub for > > each architecture, I would like to ask non-x86 machines owners to test > > the patch. > > > > Hi Konstantin, > > what's the appropriate way to test this?
Please rebuild the world with the patch and check that gettimeofday(2) still works on your architecture, both for the static and dynamic binaries. I think that just booting multiuser is enough.
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