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From: "Ryan C. Gordon" <icculus@icculus.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] binfmt_elf: Reorder objects in Makefile to favor platform default.
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:25:43 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0910190415430.13303@andre.icculuslan> (raw)

Reordered object list so compat_binfmt_elf.o comes first. This will make it
call register_binfmt() first, inserting it at the end of the list.

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.

Signed-off-by: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus@icculus.org>
---
 fs/Makefile |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/Makefile b/fs/Makefile
index af6d047..173d153 100644
--- a/fs/Makefile
+++ b/fs/Makefile
@@ -40,8 +40,9 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC)	+= binfmt_misc.o
 # binfmt_script is always there
 obj-y				+= binfmt_script.o
 
-obj-$(CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF)	+= binfmt_elf.o
+# List compat_* first, so they insert at end of the list, and are tried last.
 obj-$(CONFIG_COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF)	+= compat_binfmt_elf.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF)	+= binfmt_elf.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF_FDPIC)	+= binfmt_elf_fdpic.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_BINFMT_SOM)	+= binfmt_som.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT)	+= binfmt_flat.o
-- 
1.6.0.4


             reply	other threads:[~2009-10-19 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-19 14:25 Ryan C. Gordon [this message]
2009-10-19 16:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-10-20  4:34   ` Ryan C. Gordon
2009-10-21  7:59     ` Ryan C. Gordon

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