Why disable vdso by default with CONFIG_PARAVIRT?

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On Tuesday 12 December 2006 21:11, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > I don't think being incompatible to old binaries is a sensible default. That
> > is why I changed the wrong default. If paravirt ops cannot supply
> > a compatible vdso it has to do without one.
> 
> Do you know what glibc2.1 actually needs from the vdso?  Does it
> actually interpret as an elf file,

Interpret it as a ELF file, but then has some special hacks to jump
directly anyways (or at least there is no direct linking, but 
it goes over a trampoline in the main glibc)

The failure is an assertation failure in ld.so.

-Andi


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