linux-kernel - Re: VDSO support for 32bit time functions

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Message-ID: <20140122013451.GC18164@kroah.com>
Date:	Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:34:51 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VDSO support for 32bit time functions

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 09:54:06PM +0100, Stefani Seibold wrote:
> Hi Grek,
> 
> On Monday, the 20.01.2014, 23:51 -0800 wrote Greg KH:
> > Hi Stefani,
> > 
> > About a year ago you posted a big patch to implement VDSO support for
> > 32bit functions, and the response was a request to clean it up a bit by
> > breaking up the generic bits into a series to make it easier to review /
> > apply.
> > 
> > The patch I'm referring to can be found here:
> > 	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1411713
> > 
> > Did that ever happen?
> > 
> 
> I have revamped the patch, but the request for the IA32_EMULATION is
> still pending. I have now a solution for this which i had already
> implemented, but i need to do some tests.
> 
> > If not, any specific reason why?  Do you have a newer version somewhere
> > for "modern" kernel versions?
> > 
> 
> Currently my latest version is for 3.10, but i think i can bring it to
> 3.13. I will do this next weekend and post the patch.

Very cool, thanks, if you remember, can you cc: me when you post it?

I'll be glad to test it out on some systems here that I have.

thanks,

greg k-h
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