[PATCH] S/390: Fix two issues with the IFUNC optimized mem* routines

[Andreas Jaeger]

On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 12:44:21 Andreas Krebbel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the attached patch fixes two problems with the S/390 IFUNC
> optimization of the mem* functions:
> 
> 1. In the current implementation the resolver functions reside in a
> different file than the CPU optimized versions.  This requires an
> R_390_RELATIVE runtime relocation to be generated when the resolver
> returns the function pointers. This caused a bug with GCJ. libgcj
> calls memcpy via function pointer (R_390_GLOB_DAT).  This relocation
> is resolved at load time of libgcj.  The dynamic linker in that case
> called the memcpy resolver inside Glibc *before* glibc has been
> relocated causing the resolver to return a bogus value.
> 
> This perhaps could also be fixed in the dynamic linker by calling the
> ifunc resolvers only in a second pass over all the relocations?!

Could this also be an issue on other architectures like x86-64? I had a 
few strange bugreports with LD_BIND_NOW=1 in kde that were impossible to 
debug but seemed to involve multiarch functions,

Andreas
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