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    x86/vdso: Emit a GNU hash · 6b7e2654
    Andy Lutomirski authored
    Some dynamic loaders may be slightly faster if a GNU hash is
    available.  Strangely, this seems to have no effect at all on
    the vdso size.
    
    This is unlikely to have any measurable effect on the time it
    takes to resolve vdso symbols (since there are so few of them).
    In some contexts, it can be a win for a different reason: if
    every DSO has a GNU hash section, then libc can avoid
    calculating SysV hashes at all.  Both musl and glibc appear to
    have this optimization.
    
    It's plausible that this breaks some ancient glibc version.  If
    so, then, depending on what glibc versions break, we could
    either require COMPAT_VDSO for them or consider reverting.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
    Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
    Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
    Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
    Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag@gmail.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Nathan Lynch <nathan_lynch@mentor.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: musl@lists.openwall.com <musl@lists.openwall.com>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fd56cc057a2d62ab31c56a48d04fccb435b3fd4f.1438897382.git.luto@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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