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Commit 6b7e2654 authored by Andy Lutomirski's avatar Andy Lutomirski Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/vdso: Emit a GNU hash


Some dynamic loaders may be slightly faster if a GNU hash is
available.  Strangely, this seems to have no effect at all on
the vdso size.

This is unlikely to have any measurable effect on the time it
takes to resolve vdso symbols (since there are so few of them).
In some contexts, it can be a win for a different reason: if
every DSO has a GNU hash section, then libc can avoid
calculating SysV hashes at all.  Both musl and glibc appear to
have this optimization.

It's plausible that this breaks some ancient glibc version.  If
so, then, depending on what glibc versions break, we could
either require COMPAT_VDSO for them or consider reverting.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nathan Lynch <nathan_lynch@mentor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: musl@lists.openwall.com <musl@lists.openwall.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fd56cc057a2d62ab31c56a48d04fccb435b3fd4f.1438897382.git.luto@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 88cd622f
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