[Patch v2 1/2] Clean up DSBT support

Mark Salter msalter at redhat.com
Mon Jun 4 19:40:57 UTC 2012


On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 10:53 -0400, Mark Salter wrote:
> The existing DSBT support relies on the kernel to provide DSBT info
> as part of the load maps passed to user space. The problem with this
> approach is that the DSBT info is in the dynamic section, so the
> kernel must access a userspace mapping of the dynamic section (or
> separately read a copy for the kernel) in order to retrieve the
> information needed by userspace.
> 
> This patch reworks the DSBT support to remove the reliance on DSBT
> info coming from the kernel. Instead, ldso reads the info itself from
> the dynamic section. One other benefit of this is that it allows the
> existing kernel FDPIC loader to also load DSBT binaries.

Ping. Do I need to do anything else to help this along?




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