[CRIU] vdso and vvar ordering
Pavel Emelyanov
xemul at parallels.com
Tue Jul 1 10:59:47 PDT 2014
On 07/01/2014 09:31 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Hi-
>
> This commit:
>
> http://git.criu.org/?p=criu.git;a=commit;h=fe7b8aeb8c65e11e190282aae8db2d2bebd4f6e9
>
> says that it expects the vvar area to follow the vdso. Any chance you
> could make it keep working if the vvar area is immediately before the
> vdso? I kind of want to flip the order.
No problem. Cyrill, would you, please, fix this part?
> This isn't out of malice or any aesthetic consideration -- it turns
> out that reliably building a vdso image that keep gdb happy and has
> the vvar area immediately after the vdso is considerably harder than I
> expected. Reversing it is IMO ugly, but it will be easier to
> construct the ELF image.
>
> I've gotten a report that at least one binutils version can't build
> 3.16-rc3 as a result. Grr.
>
> --Andy
>
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