* Andi Kleen (ak at suse.de) wrote: > On Thursday 16 November 2006 21:24, Chris Wright wrote: > > Looks like the VDSO issue, paravirt is not compatible if COMPAT_VDSO. > > So you're not planning to support old user land with paravirt? > Wouldn't it be better to just disable the vDSO completely then? At least > all old binaries would work then. Oh, it can be disabled by runtime (/proc/sys/kernel/vdso_enabled) or boot time (vdso=0) option already. And it should be only an interim timeslice that is broken, since earlier glibc could only do int 0x80 and newer glibc can cope with non fixed vDSO. So most users can just leave it enabled. thanks, -chris
