disable vdso loading in ELF handler unconditionally for some buggy kernel like that shipped with RHEL(likely CentOS and SL) 5.6 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673616 Benda Xu (24 Nov, 2014) Index: work/glibc-2.20/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/dl-sysdep.h =================================================================== --- work.orig/glibc-2.20/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/dl-sysdep.h +++ work/glibc-2.20/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/dl-sysdep.h @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ machines, we should look at it for unwind information even if we aren't making direct use of it. So enable this across the board. */ -#define NEED_DL_SYSINFO_DSO 1 +#define NEED_DL_SYSINFO_DSO 0 #ifndef __ASSEMBLER__