[PATCH] [BZ #21391] x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features

[H.J. Lu]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 8:51 AM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 7:45 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 04/28/2017 04:44 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>>
>>> Any other comments?
>>
>>
>> I don't have any further comments.
>>
>> Except maybe this: Why isn't this is in the kernel, like for the other
>> architectures?
>>
>
> On x86,  CPUID is available to both kernel and user space.  Kernel
> sets AT_PLATFORM and AT_HWCAP from CPUID.  But it isn't flexible
> for setting dynamic linker search path.   There is no support for platform
> nor hardware capability in dynamic linker search path for x86-64.
> AT_HWCAP only provides a small subset of features from CPUID.  My
> patch sets dynamic linker search path in user space from CPUID.  It
> works for both i386 and x86-64.
>

I will check it today.

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H.J.