[ppc] Include hwcap as ifunc argument
Richard Henderson
rth@twiddle.net
Thu May 24 14:47:00 GMT 2012
On 05/21/2012 09:58 AM, Richard Henderson wrote:
> Aside from the x86 port, there are only two targets that have ifunc
> support in glibc mainline: ppc and arm. It would be awesomely handy
> if we switch these targets to mirror the sparc lead in passing along
> the dl_hwcap contents as an argument to the resolver, *and* to do it
> in the same release as adding getauxval. There are some clever things
> we can do at static link time if we know that getauxval corresponds to
> the availability of the ifunc argument.
>
> Dave, dunno if you wanna change the signature of the arg from int to
> unsigned long for 64-bit? It just seemed prudent to do that here...
>
> I'll present a similar patch for arm shortly...
Like so. Tested on armv7. And a ping for the ppc patch?
r~
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diff --git a/sysdeps/arm/dl-irel.h b/sysdeps/arm/dl-irel.h
index 5141031..5b1964e 100644
--- a/sysdeps/arm/dl-irel.h
+++ b/sysdeps/arm/dl-irel.h
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ static inline Elf32_Addr
__attribute ((always_inline))
elf_ifunc_invoke (Elf32_Addr addr)
{
- return ((Elf32_Addr (*) (void)) (addr)) ();
+ return ((Elf32_Addr (*) (unsigned long int)) (addr)) (GLRO(dl_hwcap));
}
static inline void
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