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| 1 | +What: vDSO |
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| 2 | +Date: July 2011 |
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| 3 | +KernelVersion: 3.0 |
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| 4 | +Contact: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> |
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| 5 | +Description: |
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| 6 | + |
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| 1 | 7 | On some architectures, when the kernel loads any userspace program it |
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| 2 | 8 | maps an ELF DSO into that program's address space. This DSO is called |
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| 3 | 9 | the vDSO and it often contains useful and highly-optimized alternatives |
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| 23 | 29 | ABI of those symbols is considered stable. It may vary across architectures, |
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| 24 | 30 | though. |
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| 25 | 31 | |
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| 26 | | -(As of this writing, this ABI documentation as been confirmed for x86_64. |
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| 32 | +Note: |
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| 33 | + As of this writing, this ABI documentation as been confirmed for x86_64. |
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| 27 | 34 | The maintainers of the other vDSO-using architectures should confirm |
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| 28 | | - that it is correct for their architecture.) |
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| 35 | + that it is correct for their architecture. |
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