linux-kernel - Re: New vsyscall emulation breaks JITs

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Date:	Fri, 5 Aug 2011 22:52:22 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Andrew Lutomirski <luto@....edu>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	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

On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 01:48:28PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 08/05/2011 01:45 PM, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> > 
> > hpa: time is supported (as of 3.0) by the vdso, and very new glibc
> > uses the vdso version.  We could add a native time implementation back
> > to the vsyscall page without too much pain as a short-term fix, but
> > that would be less than ideal.
> > 
> 
> How new does glibc have to be?

Mine from May 17 doesn't support it.

> How much of a pain would it be to make the legacy vs emulated vsyscall
> page a config option?

CONFIG_DONT_BREAK_MY_BINARIES? 

If anything runtime, but really for me it looks like the vsyscall
changes should be only in one of those limited compability paranoia 
patchkits.

-Andi

-- 
ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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