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Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:45:55 +1000 From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...source.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.com>, Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>, Xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>, Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@...source.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.com>, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>, Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>, Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@...cam.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [patch 17/44] Add nosegneg capability to the vsyscall page notes On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 16:15 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > plain text document attachment (xen-vsyscall-note.patch) > 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. Hmm, this is still unconditional? Not that it causes any measurable slowdown when enabled, but ISTR discussing making this dynamic... Rusty. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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