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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:45:43 -0800
From: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
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To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org,
       xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
       Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>,
       Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [patch 13/21] Xen-paravirt: Add nosegneg capability to the vsyscall
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Add the "nosegneg" fake capabilty to the vsyscall page notes. This is
> used by the runtime linker to select a glibc version which then
> disables negative-offset accesses to the thread-local segment via
> %gs. These accesses require emulation in Xen (because segments are
> truncated to protect the hypervisor address space) and avoiding them
> provides a measurable performance boost.
>   

I don't like this because now a kernel compiled with both CONFIG_XEN and 
CONFIG_VMI has "nosegneg" turned on.  We don't actually require this for 
performance or correctness, so it would be nice to be able to 
dynamically turn it off instead of having it forced.

Zach
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