From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] linux-2.6.2-rc2_vsyscall-gtod_B1.patch
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:26:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040129132623.GB13225@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <401894DA.7000609@redhat.com>
Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> ~ alternatively use the symbol table the vdso has. Export the new code
> only via the symbol table. No fixed address for the function, the
> runtime gets it from the symbol table. glibc will use weak symbol
> references; if the symbol isn't there, the old code is used. This will
> require that every single optimized syscall needs to be handled special.
>
>
> I personally like the first approach better. The indirection table can
> maintained in sync with the syscall table inside the kernel. It all
> comes at all times from the same source. The overhead of the memory
> load should be neglectable.
I like the second approach more. You can change glibc to look up the
weak symbol for _all_ syscalls, then none of them are special and it
will work with future kernel optimisations.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-29 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-29 2:46 [RFC][PATCH] linux-2.6.2-rc2_vsyscall-gtod_B1.patch john stultz
2004-01-29 5:06 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-01-29 13:26 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2004-01-29 18:05 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-01-29 19:15 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-01-29 23:59 ` john stultz
2004-01-30 0:40 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-01-30 0:31 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-01-30 4:17 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-01-30 5:09 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-01-30 9:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-02-03 4:38 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-01-30 17:34 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-01-30 8:33 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-01-30 17:21 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-01-31 0:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-01-31 2:41 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-01-31 5:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-02-01 1:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-03 4:35 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-02-03 5:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-03 8:52 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-03 16:25 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-03 17:37 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-03 18:10 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-03 18:23 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-03 18:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-01-31 0:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-01-31 2:20 ` john stultz
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2004-02-04 2:27 ` Andi Kleen
2004-02-04 2:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-04 4:21 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-02-05 21:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-06 4:15 ` Rik van Riel
2004-02-06 4:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-06 9:23 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-02-06 15:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-07 0:37 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-02-07 2:19 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-07 3:37 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-02-07 4:36 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-02-07 4:53 ` Jamie Lokier
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