On 03/10/2014 10:46 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> >> Yes, we'd have to switch the vdso to using syscall access. Doing that >> from inside a system call is... "interesting". > > It's a little less interesting if it just involves changing a vma. > It's still tricky, though -- would each struct mm have its own struct > file for the vvar page? Can this be done with some > vm_operations_struct magic? There are possible races, too, though -- > another thread could access the thing concurrently with a syscall. >
Hint: where is your RIP? Where is the RIP of other processes? -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/