[patch 1/3] powerpc: Move 64bit VDSO to improve context switch performance
Andreas Schwab
schwab at linux-m68k.org
Sat Oct 3 05:14:37 EST 2009
Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org> writes:
> On 64bit applications the VDSO is the only thing in segment 0. Since the VDSO
> is position independent we can remove the hint and let get_unmapped_area pick
> an area.
This breaks gdb. The section table in the VDSO image when mapped into
the process no longer contains meaningful values, and gdb rejects it.
Andreas.
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