[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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