[PATCH] Fix VMI and COMPAT_VDSO for 2.6.21
authorZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Sat, 10 Mar 2007 07:00:30 +0000 (23:00 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:33:51 +0000 (16:33 -0700)
commitb6bc5d71499c6e2d403a0624841c280e6edebe43
tree58ec33c3cb0985a6b07697fe996eeedc93c24ac3
parent9f35575dfc172f0a93fb464761883c8f49599b7a
[PATCH] Fix VMI and COMPAT_VDSO for 2.6.21

VMI is broken under COMPAT_VDSO, as Xen and other non hardware assisted
hypervisors will be.  I have been working on a fix for this which works
for older glibcs that panic when the new relocatable VDSO is used.

However, I believe at this time that the fix is going to be too radical
to consider at this stage in the release of 2.6.21.  We don't expect
this config option to be turned on by vendors for new distributions, so
at this point we are willing to drop support for it when VMI is compiled
in, and work on a patch for 2.6.22 which more fully addresses the
problem.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/i386/Kconfig