Merge branch 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86-64, vdso: Do not allocate memory for the vDSO
  clocksource: Change __ARCH_HAS_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA to a CONFIG option
  x86, vdso: Drop now wrong comment
  Document the vDSO and add a reference parser
  ia64: Replace clocksource.fsys_mmio with generic arch data
  x86-64: Move vread_tsc and vread_hpet into the vDSO
  clocksource: Replace vread with generic arch data
  x86-64: Add --no-undefined to vDSO build
  x86-64: Allow alternative patching in the vDSO
  x86: Make alternative instruction pointers relative
  x86-64: Improve vsyscall emulation CS and RIP handling
  x86-64: Emulate legacy vsyscalls
  x86-64: Fill unused parts of the vsyscall page with 0xcc
  x86-64: Remove vsyscall number 3 (venosys)
  x86-64: Map the HPET NX
  x86-64: Remove kernel.vsyscall64 sysctl
  x86-64: Give vvars their own page
  x86-64: Document some of entry_64.S
  x86-64: Fix alignment of jiffies variable

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_emu_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_emu_64.S
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ffa845eae5ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_emu_64.S
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+/*
+ * vsyscall_emu_64.S: Vsyscall emulation page
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2011 Andy Lutomirski
+ *
+ * Subject to the GNU General Public License, version 2
+ */
+
+#include <linux/linkage.h>
+#include <asm/irq_vectors.h>
+
+/* The unused parts of the page are filled with 0xcc by the linker script. */
+
+.section .vsyscall_0, "a"
+ENTRY(vsyscall_0)
+	int $VSYSCALL_EMU_VECTOR
+END(vsyscall_0)
+
+.section .vsyscall_1, "a"
+ENTRY(vsyscall_1)
+	int $VSYSCALL_EMU_VECTOR
+END(vsyscall_1)
+
+.section .vsyscall_2, "a"
+ENTRY(vsyscall_2)
+	int $VSYSCALL_EMU_VECTOR
+END(vsyscall_2)