On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:06:31PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Subject: [patch] paravirt: VDSO page is essential > From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > commit 3bbf54725467d604698721384d858b5983b87e8f disables the VDSO for > CONFIG_PARAVIRT kernels. This #ifdeffery was a bad change: the VDSO is
Well it was the change that made my test machine (with SUSE 9.0 userland) work with CONFIG_PARAVIRT on. If you have a better solution please post it. > an essential component of Linux, and this change forces all of them to > use int $0x80 - including sane ones like KVM. (If a hypervisor does not > handle the VDSO properly then it can work things around via the vdso=0 No hypervisor involved, just CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y on bare hardware. > boot option. Or CONFIG_PARAVIRT should not have been merged. But in any > case, it is a basic taste issue: we DO NOT #ifdef around core features > like this!) We set sensible defaults for full backwards compatibility. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
