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Re: About gcc builtin atomics



On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, Mikael Pettersson wrote:

> Security-centric people dislike vsyscall pages and prefer vdsos since 
> their address-space placements can be randomized, but that also makes 
> vdsos slower to access.

Perhaps backward compatibility could become optional should ASLR be added 
in future kernels? (I'm thinking of CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO -- though I don't 
really understand how it works...)

Finn

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