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Re: turn off VDSO on glibc side


On Wednesday 03 July 2013 12:58:06 heroxbd wrote:
> Mike Frysinger writes:
> > there aren't any configure flags or runtime knobs that i know of on
> > the glibc side of things.  you could edit elf/dl-support.c and try
> > commenting out the parts that handle AT_SYSINFO and AT_SYSINFO_EHDR.
> 
> I've pursued this approach. So far a base system was built around the
> patched glibc on that vdso-buggy kernel, verifying that it works. Here I
> attach a simple (and ugly) patch I used to disable VDSO completely for
> completeness.

i'm not sure there's a way to generalize this, and i don't think this is a 
patch i want to carry in Gentoo's glibc build.  i don't have a good answer 
short of "upgrade your kernel".  sucks either way.
-mike

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