Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:39:01 +0300 From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>, nwhitehorn@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Avoiding sysctl at program startup using ELF aux vector (was: concurrent sysctl implementation) Message-ID: <20100629083901.GG13238@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <20100629082639.GH96870@alchemy.franken.de> References: <20090724073451.GH54986@felucia.tataz.chchile.org> <20090724081842.GF55190@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20090724115404.GI54986@felucia.tataz.chchile.org> <20090724115649.GV68469@hoeg.nl> <20090724130928.GJ54986@felucia.tataz.chchile.org> <20090724134953.GW68469@hoeg.nl> <20090724212916.GQ55190@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20100623210959.GA21260@felucia.tataz.chchile.org> <20100628144858.GA13238@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20100629082639.GH96870@alchemy.franken.de>
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--ACogS/Nlo5ygnE7x Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:26:39AM +0200, Marius Strobl wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 05:48:59PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:09:59PM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > > > Hi Kostik, > > >=20 > > > This patch seems to have faded out from memory. Is it possible to go > > > forward and commit it? > > I refreshed the patch. Hopefully, nobody will object, and I commit it > > shortly. > >=20 > > >=20 > > > Thanks, > > > Regards. > > >=20 > > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:29:16AM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > > > Below is the prototype that seems to work for me both with patched = and > > > > old rtld on i386. Patch also contains bits for amd64 that I did not > > > > tested yet. All other arches are not buildable for now. > > > >=20 > > > > Patch completely eliminates sysctl syscalls from the rtld and libc > > > > startup. Without the patch, a single run of /bin/ls did 6 sysctls, > > > > with the patch, no sysctls is queried at all. > > > >=20 > > Comparing with the originally posted patch, I added support for all > > architectures, tested amd64 and ia32 on amd64, and converted getpagesiz= es(3) > > that added two more startup sysctls. > >=20 > > Would be nice to get a testing for at least some !x86 architectures > > before the commit, I added some people who helped me in past, to the Cc= :. > >=20 >=20 > Doesn't look good on sparc64: > <...> > NFS ROOT: 192.168.1.40:/usr/data/nfsroot/sparc64 > dc1: link state changed to UP > pid 24 (ifconfig), uid 0: exited on signal 11 > Segmentation fault > Interface IP-Address Broadcast > pid 29 (rcorder), uid 0: exited on signal 11 > Segmentation fault > pid 30 (grep), uid 0: exited on signal 11 > Segmentation fault > pid 31 (rcorder), uid 0: exited on signal 11 > Segmentation fault > =20 > pid 32 (date), uid 0: exited on signal 11 > Segmentation fault > Jun 29 12:20:50 getty[36]: open /dev/ttyv3: No such file or directory > <...> >=20 > Unfortunately, I currently lack the time to debug this. Thank you. --ACogS/Nlo5ygnE7x Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkwpsSUACgkQC3+MBN1Mb4hWeQCgwo6XcikdbmdZVzhlBOx0DeT4 vxkAn2ZUPdIlTmGwoUVAOMsuPN5YgeSi =HtZR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ACogS/Nlo5ygnE7x--
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