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Re: kernel DSO
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 05:40:58PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> The vdso will be almost identical... except the .dynsym table in the
> vdso is "patched" by the kernel at boot for functions like memcpy
> to point to memcpy_cpumodel, and that sort of thing.
Which would mean a prelink conflict. Anything that calls memcpy will
need to be relocated, unless you want to commit to a fixed memory
location for memcpy in the vDSO. I certainly wouldn't want that..
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Alan Modra
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