From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>,
Mikael Pettersson <mikpelinux@gmail.com>,
Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>, Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] __vdso_findsym
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 16:38:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140616143801.GJ5714@two.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKOQZ8wwKcDAXq0BnHwvL01LQNFeOGwgA9x8kCLWeFaP6USF4A@mail.gmail.com>
> I think this issue started when some of the Go developers questioned
> why the kernel needed to provide a very complex interface--parsing an
> ELF shared shared library--for very simple functionality--looking up
> the address of a magic function. This approach has required special
> support not just in Go, but also in the dynamic linker and gdb, and
> does not work well for statically linked binaries. The support in gdb
> is perhaps a good idea, but elsewhere it does not make sense.
>
> So why not provide a simple interface?
What good would it do now that everyone already supports it?
The proposal is 10+ years too late.
-andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-16 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-14 18:16 [RFC 0/2] __vdso_findsym Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-14 18:16 ` [RFC 1/2] uapi: Add some missing dynamic table-related definitions to elf.h Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-14 18:16 ` [RFC 2/2] [NOT READY] x86/vdso: Add __vdso_findsym Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-14 21:30 ` [RFC 0/2] __vdso_findsym Rich Felker
2014-06-14 22:38 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-14 23:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-15 3:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-15 6:49 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-15 14:25 ` Mikael Pettersson
2014-06-15 14:35 ` Rich Felker
2014-06-15 15:47 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-15 17:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-15 17:40 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-15 17:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-15 18:20 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-15 18:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-15 18:54 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-15 19:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-15 19:22 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2014-06-15 19:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-15 19:50 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2014-06-15 19:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-15 20:53 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-15 21:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-16 0:55 ` Rich Felker
2014-06-16 2:36 ` Andi Kleen
2014-06-16 3:49 ` Rich Felker
2014-06-16 14:08 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2014-06-16 14:38 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2014-06-16 14:58 ` Rich Felker
2014-06-16 15:31 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2014-06-16 15:42 ` Rich Felker
2014-06-20 15:55 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-20 16:07 ` Rich Felker
2014-06-16 14:56 ` Rich Felker
2014-06-15 18:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-15 18:22 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-16 6:39 ` Rich Felker
2014-06-16 1:06 ` Rich Felker
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