linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] binfmt_elf: Reorder objects in Makefile to favor platform default.

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Message-ID: <m3r5szfizl.fsf@hase.home>
Date:	Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:26:06 +0200
From:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...hat.com>
To:	"Ryan C. Gordon" <icculus@...ulus.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] binfmt_elf: Reorder objects in Makefile to favor platform default.

"Ryan C. Gordon" <icculus@...ulus.org> writes:

> Now the kernel will try the compatibility formats as a backup if the actual
> system format rejects the binary. As almost all binaries loaded won't be
> compatibility formats, this saves a few cycles for each process.

Perhaps this should be configurable.  For a 64-bit arch with mostly
32-bit userspace the compat format should probably be tried first.

Andreas.

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