From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Steve Munroe <sjmunroe@us.ibm.com>,
Ulrich Weigand <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Subject: Re: Saving to 32 bits of GPRs in signal context
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 14:36:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <99b98cc08b91cb5b12fe37c07b3533b8@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1180526992.19517.277.camel@localhost.localdomain>
>>> Actually, it's the opposite... the prctl becomes a problem if you
>> have
>>> libs wanting to use 64 bits for optims
>>
>> The host application, or the dynamic loader, can call
>> the prctl() when it loads the DSO that needs it.
>
> Provided you know it does... and with static binaries it gets harder...
A mechanism like what is done for executable stacks
can be used, so you end up with something in the ELF
headers that tells you. Not that I like this particular
mechanism.
>> In almost all cases this should all be transparent
>> for the user IMHO, based on some ELF flag.
>
> You reckon ? I was wondering about that ... maybe we should define some
> ELF personality for that ...
>
> But that means that existing programs wouldn't get it even while some
> libs they depend on might have such optims without the program knowing
> about it ...
Like I said, the dynamic loader should do the work
in such cases.
> Also, if I can avoid changing glibc ... (you know how hard it is !)
No really? Tell me about it? :-)
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-30 12:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-29 7:24 Saving to 32 bits of GPRs in signal context Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-29 7:52 ` Dan Malek
2007-05-29 8:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-29 9:26 ` Gabriel Paubert
2007-05-29 9:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-29 13:12 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-29 14:00 ` Steve Munroe
2007-05-29 14:08 ` Ulrich Weigand
2007-05-29 14:17 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-29 14:38 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-29 19:04 ` Becky Bruce
2007-05-30 10:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-30 12:13 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-30 12:30 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-29 14:31 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-29 14:51 ` Steve Munroe
2007-05-29 21:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-29 23:16 ` Steve Munroe
2007-05-29 23:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-30 7:34 ` Hiroyuki Machida
2007-05-30 11:40 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-30 11:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-30 3:37 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-05-30 5:32 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-30 11:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-30 12:15 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-30 12:48 ` Hiroyuki Machida
2007-05-30 12:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-30 18:09 ` Steve Munroe
2007-05-30 21:02 ` Gabriel Paubert
2007-05-30 21:41 ` Steve Munroe
2007-05-30 12:01 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-30 11:59 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-30 12:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-30 12:07 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-30 12:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-30 12:36 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2007-05-29 14:28 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-29 21:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-29 21:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-29 13:04 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-29 14:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-05-29 14:43 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-29 15:54 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-05-29 18:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-05-29 21:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-29 21:45 ` Felix Domke
2007-05-30 11:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-30 11:52 ` Felix Domke
2007-05-30 13:14 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-30 11:54 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-30 12:07 ` Felix Domke
2007-05-31 5:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-29 13:10 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-29 21:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-29 23:46 ` Olof Johansson
2007-05-30 0:43 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-30 2:54 ` Steve Munroe
2007-05-30 5:31 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-30 19:47 ` Steve Munroe
2007-05-30 20:52 ` Olof Johansson
2007-05-30 21:33 ` Steve Munroe
2007-05-29 13:53 ` Ulrich Weigand
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