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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>
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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.

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