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Hi Andi, Here's a couple of patches to fix up COMPAT_VDSO: The first is a straightforward implementation of Jan's original idea of relocating the VDSO to match its mapped location. Unlike Jan and Zach's version, I changed it to relocate based on the phdrs rather than the sections; the result is pleasantly compact. The second patch takes advantage of the fact that all the

Hi Andi, Here's a couple of patches to fix up COMPAT_VDSO: The first is a straightforward implementation of Jan's original idea of relocating the VDSO to match its mapped location. Unlike Jan and Zach's version, I changed it to relocate based on the phdrs rather than the sections; the result is pleasantly compact. The second patch takes advantage of the fact that all the

Hi Andi, Four patches: - clean up asm/bugs.h, by moving all the C code into its own C file - split identify_cpu() into boot and secondary variants, so that boot-time setup functions can be marked __init - repost of the COMPAT_VDSO patches with a bit more robustness from unknown DT_tags, and functions marked __init, since all this is boot-time only setup. Thanks, J --

Hi Andi, Four patches: - clean up asm/bugs.h, by moving all the C code into its own C file - split identify_cpu() into boot and secondary variants, so that boot-time setup functions can be marked __init - repost of the COMPAT_VDSO patches with a bit more robustness from unknown DT_tags, and functions marked __init, since all this is boot-time only setup. Thanks, J --

I''m sure everyone has seen the drop of VMI patches for Linux at this point, but just in case, the link is included below. I''ve read this version of the VMI spec and have made my way through most of the patches. While I wasn''t really that impressed with the first spec wrt Xen, the second version seems to be much more palatable. Specifically, the code inlining and