Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Mar 2014 14:00:10 -0700 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86, vdso32: handle 32 bit vDSO larger one page |
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On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:58:35PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 03/13/2014 12:37 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > There are big advantages to "minimal code" at fixed addresses. The > > vdso=native thing fills the page with 0xcc just to not give useful > > instructions (still on my phone, so that may be a bogus memory) > > > > That said, I doubt we care just for OpenSUSE 9. Let it be slower. > > Yes.
At some point the majority of my nfsroot test image were OpenSUSE 9. It was the last opensuse system that booted fast without udev or initrd :-)
I have mostly retired them by now, but still occasional usage.
So that why i would prefer to not cripple it.
-Andi
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