Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/entry: Improve system call entry comments | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Date | Tue, 8 Mar 2016 10:47:43 -0800 |
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On 03/08/16 10:45, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > s/modern/most, perhaps? > > I'm hoping that some day Bionic goes away and gets replaced by musl. > > Of course, musl doesn't always use fast syscalls because it needs a > vdso facility that doesn't currently exist. I'll deal with that > eventually. >
You don't actually need actual DSO support to support fast system calls on i386. Even klibc uses them now, and the additional code to support it is trivial.
-hpa
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