linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/3] x86-64: vsyscall emulation cleanups

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Date:	Mon,  6 Jun 2011 13:27:22 -0400
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@....EDU>
To:	x86@...nel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	pageexec@...email.hu, Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@....edu>
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] x86-64: vsyscall emulation cleanups

[cc list trimmed from the previous patches to include only people who seem
 like they would care about this round of changes.  My apologies if I missed
 anyone.]

This series applies to the x86/vdso branch of the -tip tree.

Patch 1/3 deletes some very outdated comments in vsyscall_64.c.

Patch 2/3 simplifies the vsyscall emulation int 0xcc mechanism and removes
some ret instructions that are (as pointed out by the PaX team) possibly
dangerous.

Patch 3/3 fixes what is arguably the most serious problem of all: people
thought that CONFIG_COMPAT_VSYSCALLS controlled binary compatibility.  It
changes the Kconfig short description, help text, and feature removal entry
to make it a lot more clear what's going on.

Andy Lutomirski (3):
  x86-64: Fix outdated comments in vsyscall_64.c
  x86-64: Clean up vsyscall emulation and remove fixed-address ret
  x86-64: Clarify CONFIG_COMPAT_VSYSCALLS text

 Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt |   11 ++-
 arch/x86/Kconfig                           |   27 +++++----
 arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h            |   10 +++-
 arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c              |   85 +++++++++-------------------
 arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_emu_64.S          |   17 +-----
 5 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 92 deletions(-)

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1.7.5.2

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