From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422815AbXAMXLe (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Jan 2007 18:11:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030297AbXAMXLA (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Jan 2007 18:11:00 -0500 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:59931 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030535AbXAMXKc (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Jan 2007 18:10:32 -0500 Message-Id: <20070113014648.311911321@goop.org> References: <20070113014539.408244126@goop.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.46-1 Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:45:51 -0800 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Ian Pratt , Christian Limpach , Chris Wright Subject: [patch 12/20] XEN-paravirt: Xen: Add nosegneg capability to the vsyscall page notes Content-Disposition: inline; filename=xen-vsyscall-note.patch Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach Signed-off-by: Chris Wright --- arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 29 insertions(+) =================================================================== --- a/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/vsyscall-note.S @@ -23,3 +24,31 @@ 3: .balign 4; /* pad out section */ ASM_ELF_NOTE_BEGIN(".note.kernel-version", "a", UTS_SYSNAME, 0) .long LINUX_VERSION_CODE ASM_ELF_NOTE_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 0 nosegneg + * to match the mapping of bit to name that we give here. + */ +#define NOTE_KERNELCAP_BEGIN(ncaps, mask) \ + ASM_ELF_NOTE_BEGIN(".note.kernelcap", "a", "GNU", 2) \ + .long ncaps, mask +#define NOTE_KERNELCAP(bit, name) \ + .byte bit; .asciz name +#define NOTE_KERNELCAP_END ASM_ELF_NOTE_END + +NOTE_KERNELCAP_BEGIN(1, 1) +NOTE_KERNELCAP(1, "nosegneg") +NOTE_KERNELCAP_END +#endif + --