On Wed, 7 May 2008, Richard Zidlicky wrote:
Did you already decide how to do the details of TLS handling and context switches?
That's for the people implementing the kernel side to decide; the ABI specifies the symbol names and versions exported by the vDSO and the userspace interfaces to those functions. The vDSO approach gives a lot of freedom for the kernel to select what instruction sequence to put there, and it could select one with whatever optimizations you like - though anything involving shared pages not changed on context switch could run into security issues where a process has access to information it should not have access to, or can make changes with adverse effects on another process. -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-m68k" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
