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Commit 87154938 authored by Will Deacon's avatar Will Deacon Committed by Catalin Marinas
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arm64: vdso: put vdso datapage in a separate vma



The VDSO datapage doesn't need to be executable (no code there) or
CoW-able (the kernel writes the page, so a private copy is totally
useless).

This patch moves the datapage into its own VMA, identified as "[vvar]"
in /proc/<pid>/maps.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
parent b2f8c07b
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