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| author |   Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com> | 2015-08-04 12:17:53 -0700 |
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| committer | Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com> | 2015-08-04 15:44:42 -0700 |
| commit | 9ca8dbcc65cfc63d6f5ef3312a33184e1d726e00 (patch) | |
| tree | 1c9cafbcd35f783a87880a10f85d1a060db1a563 /kernel/Documentation/ABI/stable/vdso | |
| parent | 98260f3884f4a202f9ca5eabed40b1354c489b29 (diff) | |
Add the rt linux 4.1.3-rt3 as base
Import the rt linux 4.1.3-rt3 as OPNFV kvm base.
It's from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-rt-devel.git linux-4.1.y-rt and
the base is:
commit 0917f823c59692d751951bf5ea699a2d1e2f26a2
Author: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Date: Sat Jul 25 12:13:34 2015 +0200
Prepare v4.1.3-rt3
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
We lose all the git history this way and it's not good. We
should apply another opnfv project repo in future.
Change-Id: I87543d81c9df70d99c5001fbdf646b202c19f423
Signed-off-by: Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/Documentation/ABI/stable/vdso')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/Documentation/ABI/stable/vdso | 27 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/Documentation/ABI/stable/vdso b/kernel/Documentation/ABI/stable/vdso new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7cdfc28cc --- /dev/null +++ b/kernel/Documentation/ABI/stable/vdso @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +On some architectures, when the kernel loads any userspace program it +maps an ELF DSO into that program's address space. This DSO is called +the vDSO and it often contains useful and highly-optimized alternatives +to real syscalls. + +These functions are called just like ordinary C function according to +your platform's ABI. Call them from a sensible context. (For example, +if you set CS on x86 to something strange, the vDSO functions are +within their rights to crash.) In addition, if you pass a bad +pointer to a vDSO function, you might get SIGSEGV instead of -EFAULT. + +To find the DSO, parse the auxiliary vector passed to the program's +entry point. The AT_SYSINFO_EHDR entry will point to the vDSO. + +The vDSO uses symbol versioning; whenever you request a symbol from the +vDSO, specify the version you are expecting. + +Programs that dynamically link to glibc will use the vDSO automatically. +Otherwise, you can use the reference parser in Documentation/vDSO/parse_vdso.c. + +Unless otherwise noted, the set of symbols with any given version and the +ABI of those symbols is considered stable. It may vary across architectures, +though. + +(As of this writing, this ABI documentation as been confirmed for x86_64. + The maintainers of the other vDSO-using architectures should confirm + that it is correct for their architecture.) |