[CRIU] vdso and vvar ordering
Cyrill Gorcunov
gorcunov at gmail.com
Tue Jul 1 11:38:10 PDT 2014
On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 10:31:50AM -0700, 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.
>
> 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.
Sure, no problem, just CC me on the commit which does that in kernel.
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