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    SubjectRe: [RFC, PATCH] Fixup COMPAT_VDSO to work with CONFIG_PARAVIRT
    Ingo Molnar wrote:
    > that's what is the case right now, but much of the intention behind the
    > vma based vDSO is to enable per-process randomized vdso locations, and
    > various distributions do that. So the 'modern' vDSO concept is very much
    > relocatable.

    No, the point is that it never needs relocating. The kernel can map it
    anywhere and userspace can cope. Its only the broken glibcs which
    require relocation.

    J
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