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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/ABI/stable/vdso')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/vdso b/Documentation/ABI/stable/vdso index 55406ec8a35a..951838d42781 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/vdso +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/vdso @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +What: vDSO +Date: July 2011 +KernelVersion: 3.0 +Contact: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> +Description: + On some architectures, when the kernel loads any userspace program it 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 @@ -23,6 +29,7 @@ Unless otherwise noted, the set of symbols with any given version and the ABI of those symbols is considered stable. It may vary across architectures, though. -(As of this writing, this ABI documentation as been confirmed for x86_64. +Note: + As of this writing, this ABI documentation as been confirmed for x86_64. The maintainers of the other vDSO-using architectures should confirm - that it is correct for their architecture.) + that it is correct for their architecture. |