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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/vdso b/Documentation/ABI/stable/vdso index 73ed1240a5c0..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 |