linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86/vdso: Remove runtime 32-bit vDSO selection

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Date:	Wed, 7 Oct 2015 13:00:30 -0400
From:	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86/vdso: Remove runtime 32-bit vDSO selection

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 12:18 PM, tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski
<tipbot@...or.com> wrote:
> Commit-ID:  0a6d1fa0d2b48fbae444e46e7f37a4832b2f8bdf
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/0a6d1fa0d2b48fbae444e46e7f37a4832b2f8bdf
> Author:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
> AuthorDate: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 17:47:56 -0700
> Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
> CommitDate: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 11:34:08 +0200
>
> x86/vdso: Remove runtime 32-bit vDSO selection
>
> 32-bit userspace will now always see the same vDSO, which is
> exactly what used to be the int80 vDSO.  Subsequent patches will
> clean it up and make it support SYSENTER and SYSCALL using
> alternatives.

This doesn't make sense to apply without the rest of the series.

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Brian Gerst
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