linux-kernel - Re: [patch 8/8] powerpc: Fix PCL vdso detection

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Message-ID: <20090630232308.GG17968@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 1 Jul 2009 01:23:08 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, paulus@...ba.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 8/8] powerpc: Fix PCL vdso detection


* Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org> wrote:

> PCL uses arch_vma_name() to detect a vdso region which in turn 
> uses current->mm->context.vdso_base. We need to initialise this 
> before doing the mmap or else we fail to detect the vdso.

This too should go via the PowerPC tree i think.

I've applied the rest - nice stuff!!

	Ingo
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