[PATCH] i386: Make COMPAT_VDSO runtime selectable.

Now that relocation of the VDSO for COMPAT_VDSO users is done at
runtime rather than compile time, it is possible to enable/disable
compat mode at runtime.

This patch allows you to enable COMPAT_VDSO mode with "vdso=2" on the
kernel command line, or via sysctl.  (Switching on a running system
shouldn't be done lightly; any process which was relying on the compat
VDSO will be upset if it goes away.)

The COMPAT_VDSO config option still exists, but if enabled it just
makes vdso_enabled default to VDSO_COMPAT.

+From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>

Fix oops from i386-make-compat_vdso-runtime-selectable.patch.

Even mingetty at system startup finds it easy to trigger an oops
while reading /proc/PID/maps: though it has a good hold on the mm
itself, that cannot stop exit_mm() from resetting tsk->mm to NULL.

(It is usually show_map()'s call to get_gate_vma() which oopses,
and I expect we could change that to check priv->tail_vma instead;
but no matter, even m_start()'s call just after get_task_mm() is racy.)

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-i386/page.h b/include/asm-i386/page.h
index 7b19f45..fd3f64a 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/page.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/page.h
@@ -143,9 +143,7 @@ extern int page_is_ram(unsigned long pagenr);
 #include <asm-generic/memory_model.h>
 #include <asm-generic/page.h>
 
-#ifndef CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_GATE_AREA 1
-#endif
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 
 #endif /* _I386_PAGE_H */