RFC: Use .plt section sh_entsize instead of GET_PLT_ENTRY_SIZE

Michael Matz matz@suse.de
Mon Aug 12 13:19:00 GMT 2013


Hi,

On Fri, 9 Aug 2013, H.J. Lu wrote:

> We need to increase x86-64 PLT entry size to 32 bytes to
> support Intel MPX.

I don't like this at all.  The suggestion from Ian or Alan (don't 
remember) with multiple plts sounds much better.  Only 2 plt slots per 
icache line seems quite horrible when not needed.  IIRC you said "it 
sounds complicated" to that idea.  I say, "so what?".  Life is hard.


Ciao,
Michael.



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