From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>, Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>, Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
Ian Taylor <iant@golang.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] __vdso_findsym
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 16:36:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <539CDC6F.6010501@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrX3Kv7VAfYau-79odKtRvME0-AzZB_xGUMPEHeas8AkaQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 06/14/2014 03:38 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> Hmm. I hadn't thought of this as a size win, but I guess it could be
> if there are static binaries around.
>
That pretty much *is* the win, because this is in effect treating the
kernel vdso as a shared library.
> This patch currently generates 488 bytes on text with my toolchain.
> More than half of that is garbage needed to deal with the symbol
> version tables, and I should be able to move a decent fraction of it
> to vdso2c and therefore out of the kernel and vdso images.
Now, if we can do this without adding another page then that becomes
much more compelling IMO. I suspect we can if you are already down to
488 bytes.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-14 23:36 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 [this message]
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
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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