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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/ABI/stable/vdso')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/vdso b/Documentation/ABI/stable/vdso index 951838d42781..85dbb6a160df 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/vdso +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/vdso @@ -9,9 +9,11 @@ maps an ELF DSO into that program's address space. This DSO is called the vDSO and it often contains useful and highly-optimized alternatives to real syscalls. -These functions are called just like ordinary C function according to -your platform's ABI. Call them from a sensible context. (For example, -if you set CS on x86 to something strange, the vDSO functions are +These functions are called according to your platform's ABI. On many +platforms they are called just like ordinary C function. On other platforms +(ex: powerpc) they are called with the same convention as system calls which +is different from ordinary C functions. Call them from a sensible context. +(For example, if you set CS on x86 to something strange, the vDSO functions are within their rights to crash.) In addition, if you pass a bad pointer to a vDSO function, you might get SIGSEGV instead of -EFAULT. |