[PATCH v8 2/2] elf: Fix slow DSO sorting behavior in dynamic loader (BZ #17645)

Adhemerval Zanella adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
Thu Oct 21 23:05:46 GMT 2021



On 21/10/2021 18:04, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Okt 21 2021, Chung-Lin Tang wrote:
> 
>> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
>> index 220d327071..b39b1e5e33 100644
>> --- a/NEWS
>> +++ b/NEWS
>> @@ -51,6 +51,15 @@ Major new features:
>>  
>>  * The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
>>  
>> +* A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
>> +  topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
>> +  of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
>> +  object dependency cases.
> 
> No need for a special news entry.

I will remove this entry, the tunables one is indeed suffice.


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