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| author | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> | 2007-07-17 18:37:04 -0700 |
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| committer | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> | 2007-07-18 08:47:42 -0700 |
| commit | 24037a8b69dbf15bfed8fd42a2a2e442d7b0395b (patch) | |
| tree | 317e7d21bd253200aa09a7b1551d03c1e3985cc0 /arch/i386 | |
| parent | 688340ea34c61ad12473ccd837325b59aada9a93 (diff) | |
Add nosegneg capability to the vsyscall page notes
Add the "nosegneg" fake capabilty to the vsyscall page notes. This is
used by the runtime linker to select a glibc version which then
disables negative-offset accesses to the thread-local segment via
%gs. These accesses require emulation in Xen (because segments are
truncated to protect the hypervisor address space) and avoiding them
provides a measurable performance boost.
Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Acked-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S | 28 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S b/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S index 52e0cbbac70..271f16a8ca0 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S @@ -12,3 +12,31 @@ ELFNOTE_START(Linux, 0, "a") .long LINUX_VERSION_CODE ELFNOTE_END + +#ifdef CONFIG_XEN + +/* + * Add a special note telling glibc's dynamic linker a fake hardware + * flavor that it will use to choose the search path for libraries in the + * same way it uses real hardware capabilities like "mmx". + * We supply "nosegneg" as the fake capability, to indicate that we + * do not like negative offsets in instructions using segment overrides, + * since we implement those inefficiently. This makes it possible to + * install libraries optimized to avoid those access patterns in someplace + * like /lib/i686/tls/nosegneg. Note that an /etc/ld.so.conf.d/file + * corresponding to the bits here is needed to make ldconfig work right. + * It should contain: + * hwcap 1 nosegneg + * to match the mapping of bit to name that we give here. + */ + +/* Bit used for the pseudo-hwcap for non-negative segments. We use + bit 1 to avoid bugs in some versions of glibc when bit 0 is + used; the choice is otherwise arbitrary. */ +#define VDSO_NOTE_NONEGSEG_BIT 1 + +ELFNOTE_START(GNU, 2, "a") + .long 1, 1<<VDSO_NOTE_NONEGSEG_BIT /* ncaps, mask */ + .byte VDSO_NOTE_NONEGSEG_BIT; .asciz "nosegneg" /* bit, name */ +ELFNOTE_END +#endif |