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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch+7.5.1] Work around PR libc/13097 "linux-vdso.so.1" #3
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 01:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201211282007.50063.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121128224421.GA31724@host2.jankratochvil.net>

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On Wednesday 28 November 2012 17:44:21 Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:20:15 +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
> > I mentioned that this change could make it possible to find the separate
> > debug file by name.
> 
> I do not see how it could work, vDSO does not have and cannot have any disk
> filename in L_NAME.
> 
> Besides that even if there was a way non-build-id verification should never
> be implemented for anything new, it does not work well and there is no
> reason for it.

the existing mechanisms might not translate cleanly to providing symbol 
information for vdso's.  but i think it's worth figuring out.  i don't think 
Linux is alone when it comes to vdso type functionality ... certainly 
*BSD/Solaris does something similar ?
-mike

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-29  1:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-22 20:17 Jan Kratochvil
2012-11-23 11:30 ` Luis Gustavo
2012-11-23 11:41   ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-11-23 11:59     ` Luis Machado
2012-11-23 12:03 ` Pedro Alves
2012-11-23 12:40   ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-11-23 14:05     ` Luis Machado
2012-11-23 14:07       ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-11-23 16:01     ` Pedro Alves
2012-11-23 16:12       ` Mark Kettenis
2012-11-23 16:17         ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-11-23 16:23         ` Pedro Alves
2012-11-23 17:28       ` Joel Brobecker
2012-11-23 18:17         ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-11-23 18:22           ` Pedro Alves
2012-11-27 21:58       ` Mike Frysinger
2012-11-27 23:00         ` Matt Rice
2012-11-28  1:12         ` Pedro Alves
2012-11-28 20:39           ` Mike Frysinger
2012-11-28 22:44           ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-11-29  1:07             ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2012-11-23 12:43   ` Mark Kettenis
2012-11-23 16:30 ` H.J. Lu
2012-11-23 18:19   ` Pedro Alves
2012-11-23 18:43     ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-11-25 18:15       ` Jan Kratochvil

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