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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>2011-06-05 13:50:22 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-06-06 09:43:14 +0200
commitbb5fe2f78eadf5a52d8dcbf9a57728fd107af97b (patch)
treeed6d87558e2b9610efa45330a0083b7cc3993d1a /arch
parentd319bb79afa4039bda6f85661d6bf0c13299ce93 (diff)
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x86-64: Remove vsyscall number 3 (venosys)
It just segfaults since April 2008 (a4928cff), so I'm pretty sure that nothing uses it. And having an empty section makes the linker script a bit fragile. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu> Cc: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com> Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: pageexec@freemail.hu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4a4abcf47ecadc269f2391a313576fe6d06acef7.1307292171.git.luto@mit.edu Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S4
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c5
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 98b378d..4f90082 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -182,10 +182,6 @@ SECTIONS
*(.vsyscall_2)
}
- .vsyscall_3 ADDR(.vsyscall_0) + 3072: AT(VLOAD(.vsyscall_3)) {
- *(.vsyscall_3)
- }
-
. = ALIGN(__vsyscall_0 + PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE);
#undef VSYSCALL_ADDR
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
index 9b2f3f5..70a5f6e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
@@ -209,11 +209,6 @@ vgetcpu(unsigned *cpu, unsigned *node, struct getcpu_cache *tcache)
return 0;
}
-static long __vsyscall(3) venosys_1(void)
-{
- return -ENOSYS;
-}
-
/* Assume __initcall executes before all user space. Hopefully kmod
doesn't violate that. We'll find out if it does. */
static void __cpuinit vsyscall_set_cpu(int cpu)
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