Why disable vdso by default with CONFIG_PARAVIRT?

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Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Zachary Amsden wrote:
>   
>> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi Andi,
>>>
>>> What problem do they cause together?  There's certainly no problem with
>>> Xen+vdso (in fact, its actually very useful so that it picks up the
>>> right libc with Xen-friendly TLS).
>>>   
>>>       
>> Methinks the compat VDSO support got broken in the config?  Paravirt +
>> COMPAT_VDSO are incompatible. 
>>     
>
> Yes, that's true, but I'm looking at arch/i386/kernel/sysenter.c:
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
> unsigned int __read_mostly vdso_enabled = 0;
> #else
> unsigned int __read_mostly vdso_enabled = 1;
> #endif
>
> I can't think of any reason why that should be necessary.
>   

It's not for us or Xen.  Perhaps it came from lhype?  


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