From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> This makes the vDSO use nops for all its padding around instructions, rather than sometimes zeros, and nop-pads the end of the area containing instructions to a 32-byte cache line, to keep text and data in separate lines. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> --- arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-sigreturn.S | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-sigreturn.S~i386-clean-up-vdso-alignment-padding arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-sigreturn.S --- devel/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-sigreturn.S~i386-clean-up-vdso-alignment-padding 2005-07-28 11:42:39.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-sigreturn.S 2005-07-28 11:42:39.000000000 -0700 @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ */ .text - .org __kernel_vsyscall+32 + .org __kernel_vsyscall+32,0x90 .globl __kernel_sigreturn .type __kernel_sigreturn,@function __kernel_sigreturn: @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ __kernel_rt_sigreturn: int $0x80 .LEND_rt_sigreturn: .size __kernel_rt_sigreturn,.-.LSTART_rt_sigreturn + .balign 32 .previous .section .eh_frame,"a",@progbits _