[Lazarus] EpikTimer v1.0.1 released

Henry Vermaak henry.vermaak at gmail.com
Fri Jun 20 13:48:21 CEST 2014


On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:38:22PM +0100, Lukasz Sokol wrote:
> On 20/06/14 11:53, Michael Schnell wrote:
> > On 06/18/2014 04:03 PM, Lukasz Sokol wrote:
> >> I think this vdso time thing is so fresh, it'll be great if you contact the maintainer (Andy Lutomirski) or the guy that wrote it (Stefani Seibold)
> > 
> > I wrote to Andy and he replied very quickly.
> > 
> > Unfortunately it seems that ubiquitous availability for vDSO based timing (and other) functions is not expected in near future.
> > So I supposedly have to give up on that issue for the moment :-( .
> > 
> > -Michael
> > 
> 
> Is it possible to call about any syscall (timing included) through (32bit) exising vdso ? 

No, only the ones that are exported via the VDSO.  __kernel_vsyscall()
is used to find the fastest way to make a syscall on your processor
(i.e. sysenter vs int 0x80).

Henry




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