Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:29:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:28:59 -0400 Received: from deimos.hpl.hp.com ([192.6.19.190]:50142 "EHLO deimos.hpl.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:28:58 -0400 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15667.5309.648214.700000@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:30:21 -0700 To: "Albert D. Cahalan" Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King), torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: HZ, preferably as small as possible In-Reply-To: <200207151820.g6FIKVi215656@saturn.cs.uml.edu> References: <15666.61141.799053.70367@napali.hpl.hp.com> <200207151820.g6FIKVi215656@saturn.cs.uml.edu> X-Mailer: VM 7.03 under Emacs 21.2.1 Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com X-URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 738 Lines: 17 >>>>> On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:20:31 -0400 (EDT), "Albert D. Cahalan" said: Albert> Perhaps you could explain how to access ELF notes from Albert> regular app code. That covers 2.4 kernels AFAIK, and so the Albert> hacks could go away as soon as Debian retires the 2.2 Albert> kernel. The ELF auxiliary info table is stored at the top of the user level stack (above argv and envp). &envp[num_envs] should get you there (check on the alignment, though). --david - 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/