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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com>
To: "Ryan C. Gordon" <icculus@icculus.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] binfmt_elf: Reorder objects in Makefile to favor platform default.
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:26:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r5szfizl.fsf@hase.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0910190415430.13303@andre.icculuslan> (Ryan C. Gordon's message of "Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:25:43 -0400 (EDT)")

"Ryan C. Gordon" <icculus@icculus.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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  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-19 16:26 UTC|newest]

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

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