Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756921AbZJSQ0G (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:26:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756864AbZJSQ0F (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:26:05 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:9714 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756848AbZJSQ0E (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:26:04 -0400 From: Andreas Schwab To: "Ryan C. Gordon" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] binfmt_elf: Reorder objects in Makefile to favor platform default. References: X-Yow: I'm in ATLANTIC CITY riding in a comfortable ROLLING CHAIR... Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:26:06 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Ryan C. Gordon's message of "Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:25:43 -0400 (EDT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 817 Lines: 20 "Ryan C. Gordon" writes: > Now the kernel will try the compatibility formats as a backup if the actual > system format rejects the binary. As almost all binaries loaded won't be > compatibility formats, this saves a few cycles for each process. Perhaps this should be configurable. For a 64-bit arch with mostly 32-bit userspace the compat format should probably be tried first. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@redhat.com GPG Key fingerprint = D4E8 DBE3 3813 BB5D FA84 5EC7 45C6 250E 6F00 984E "And now for something completely different." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/