powerpc/vdso: Emit GNU & SysV hashes
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Fri Oct 2 17:47:10 AEST 2015
On Fri, 2015-07-08 at 03:05:42 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Andy Lutomirski says:
>
> Some dynamic loaders may be slightly faster if a GNU hash is
> available.
>
> 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Applied to powerpc next.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/787b393c9f6300c343600d39
cheers
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