Loading of the vDSO pseudo-hwcap from the type 2 GNU note is
a rather arcane and poorly documented process. Given that I had
a chance to review this code today I thought I would add all
of the things I had to lookup to verify the validity of the
process.
With a single .note.GNU the vDSO can register up to 64 flags,
though in practice you are limited to 64 - _DL_FIRST_EXTRA
bits which on x86 is 12 bits.
The only use of this that I know of is in the Xen support
in Linux where they use the 1st bit to indicate "nosegneg".
I see "We use bit 1 to avoid bugs in some versions of glibc
when bit 0 is used; the choice is otherwise arbitrary.", but
no reference to a glibc bug anywhere. The code as-is should
support bit zero, so we still have that free for future use.
The kernel, glibc, and ld.so.cache must coordinate to ensure
that bit values don't go too high and are used consistently.
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2013-05-13 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
* elf/dl-hwcaps.c (_dl_important_hwcaps): Comment vDSO hwcap loading.
* elf/ldconfig.c (is_hwcap_platform): Comment each hwcap check.
(main): Comment "tls" pseudo-hwcap.
The algorithm for scanning dependencies upon dlclose is
less than immediately obvious. This patch adds two bits
of comments that explain why you start the dependency
search at l_initfini[1], and why you need to restart
the search.
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2013-05-09 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
* elf/dl-close.c (_dl_close_worker): Add comments.
The seen array was doubled in size recently, but the memset to clear
the array was not adjusted. We adjust the memset to always be correct
regardless of the size of seen.
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2013-04-06 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
[BZ #15309]
* elf/dl-open.c (dl_open_worker): memset all of seen array.
These prototypes are duplicated in many places. Add a dedicated
header for holding prototypes for program-specific functions to
avoid that.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
ARM now supports loading unmarked objects from
the dynamic loader cache. Unmarked objects can
be used with the hard-float or soft-float ABI.
We must support loading unmarked objects during
the transition period from a binutils that does
not mark objects to one that does mark them with
the correct ELF flags.
Signed-off-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
We setup $(READELF) and use it everywhere, so fix the two places
that were using readelf directly.
Reported-by: Denis M. <god@politeia.in>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
* sysdeps/generic/ldconfig.h (FLAG_AARCH64_LIB64): New macro.
* elf/cache.c (print_entry): Print ",AArch64" for
FLAG_AARCH64_LIB64.
Signed-off-by: Steve McIntyre <steve.mcintyre@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@systemhalted.org>
* sysdeps/generic/ldconfig.h (FLAG_ARM_LIBHF): New macro.
* elf/cache.c (print_entry): Print ",hard-float" for
FLAG_ARM_LIBHF.
Signed-off-by: Steve McIntyre <steve.mcintyre@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@systemhalted.org>
