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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] vdso for x86_64-linux-user
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] vdso for x86_64-linux-user |
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Tue, 23 Jul 2013 22:15:18 +0100 |
On 23 July 2013 21:27, Richard Henderson <address@hidden> wrote:
> This is a refresh of a patch I wrote in 2010, and have re-posted every
> 6 months thereafter. To my knowledge, it has never been reviewed.
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> It supplies a replacement for the required x86-64 vdso. Anyone trying
> to emulate x86_64-linux on a host other than same will quickly run into
> the lack of a gettimeofday syscall, which glibc assumes is always
> provided by the vdso.
Do we really need to mess with building an x86 shared object
and pulling it in, rather than the kind of ad-hoc way we
handle the ARM commpage?
-- PMM