From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>, Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>,
Ian Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Subject: Re: vdso feature requests from the Go people
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 22:15:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <539A890A.5090206@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrVNiSUHok1xCfy9CMe=kDYsPy3i_NXm0_gcO1ckb9wdeQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 06/12/2014 09:36 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> If we were to implement both, maybe we'd actually want to provide
> something like:
>
> struct vdso_entry {
> unsigned long vdso_entry_struct_size; /* so we can add fields later on */
> void *func;
> unsigned int max_stack; /* zero if not known */
> };
>
How different is this really from the .dynsym table -- other than that
you have to find the latter via the dynamic segment?
The hash part is just to speed up lookup...
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-13 5:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-13 4:36 vdso feature requests from the Go people Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-13 4:46 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-13 5:15 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-06-13 5:23 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-13 5:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-15 9:39 ` Stijn Volckaert
2014-06-13 5:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-13 15:34 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-13 16:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-15 10:15 ` Stijn Volckaert
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