On 06/14/2014 03:38 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > Hmm. I hadn't thought of this as a size win, but I guess it could be > if there are static binaries around. > That pretty much *is* the win, because this is in effect treating the kernel vdso as a shared library. > This patch currently generates 488 bytes on text with my toolchain. > More than half of that is garbage needed to deal with the symbol > version tables, and I should be able to move a decent fraction of it > to vdso2c and therefore out of the kernel and vdso images. Now, if we can do this without adding another page then that becomes much more compelling IMO. I suspect we can if you are already down to 488 bytes. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
