x86_64: vsyscall vs vdso

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Date: Sunday, September 16, 2007 - 4:24 pm

Hello,

I'm a bit puzzled because vdso doesn't seem to be used on my fedora 7:
I just compiled a trivial program which just call gettimeofday() and
ld.so resolves this call with vsyscall's gettimeofday.

Now I'm wondering when vdso is used, could anybody give me a clue ?

Another question: is vdso going to replace vsyscall at all ? If so how
are statically programs going to be handled ?

Thanks,
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Francis
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x86_64: vsyscall vs vdso, Francis Moreau, (Sun Sep 16, 4:24 pm)
Re: x86_64: vsyscall vs vdso, Ulrich Drepper, (Sun Sep 16, 4:46 pm)
Re: x86_64: vsyscall vs vdso, Francis Moreau, (Mon Sep 17, 4:31 pm)
Re: x86_64: vsyscall vs vdso, Ulrich Drepper, (Tue Sep 18, 12:58 pm)
Re: x86_64: vsyscall vs vdso, Francis Moreau, (Mon Sep 17, 3:30 am)
Re: x86_64: vsyscall vs vdso, Ulrich Drepper, (Mon Sep 17, 10:35 am)
Re: x86_64: vsyscall vs vdso, Francis Moreau, (Mon Sep 17, 4:22 pm)
Re: x86_64: vsyscall vs vdso, Mikael Pettersson, (Tue Sep 18, 4:31 am)