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Date:      Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:26:39 +0200
From:      Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
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:  <20100629082639.GH96870@alchemy.franken.de>
In-Reply-To: <20100628144858.GA13238@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
References:  <20090509121313.GA58540@hoeg.nl> <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>

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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,
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Regards.
> > 
> > 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.
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > > 
> Comparing with the originally posted patch, I added support for all
> architectures, tested amd64 and ia32 on amd64, and converted getpagesizes(3)
> that added two more startup sysctls.
> 
> 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:.
> 

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
 
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
<...>

Unfortunately, I currently lack the time to debug this.

Marius




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