linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: clean up vdso-layout.lds.S

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Message-ID: <4A2946B9.3070701@zytor.com>
Date:	Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:24:25 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
CC:	Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@...e.cz>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: clean up vdso-layout.lds.S

Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Any comments on this? It doesn't change anything. It only makes it
>> harder to break vDSOs by accident (such as the latest buglet with TSC
>> synchronization).
> 
> Looks ok to me. Although it would have been nicer if you hadn't mixed
> that many changes together.
> 
> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
> 

It would have.  That makes review harder, and right at the moment time
is a bit at a premium.  It looks like a good cleanup, but it also looks
like it's going to need some testing, which means that since it is not a
functional change I would feel best if we could put it on the .32 track
after the imminent merge window craziness is over.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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