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Message-ID: <20110805202656.GI5782@one.firstfloor.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 22:26:56 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, luto@....edu, x86@...nel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
lueckintel@...oo.com, kimwooyoung@...il.com
Subject: Re: New vsyscall emulation breaks JITs
> I have to say I believe that trying to JIT the vdso or vsyscall pages is
> extremely dubious at best. They are fundamentally different from normal
> user space in that the kernel can muck with them any time, without
> notifying userspace about it. The other aspect of this is that this is
> about the legacy vsyscall page, which we're trying to get rid of, partly
> because of security problems.
There's clear evidence now you can't: it's used even by new binaries.
-Andi
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