From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Dynamic linking in the kernel
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:22:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B802870.5030201@metux.de> (raw)
Hi folks,
just some naive thoughts on dynamic linking:
Starting up an dynamically linked executable tends to need a lot
of syscalls. A kernel-based dynamic linker could cache a lot of
relocation data (eg. when the same binary is called many times),
share pages even w/o mmap(), and the ldstub wouldnt be needed
anymore.
At that point we maybe also could create a new binfmt which is
tailored to efficiency (much simpler than ELF)
What do you think about this idea ?
cu
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-20 18:22 Enrico Weigelt [this message]
2010-02-20 20:57 ` Dynamic linking in the kernel David Miller
2010-02-22 5:43 ` Enrico Weigelt
2010-02-22 6:21 ` David Miller
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