Re: [PATCH] binfmt_elf: Reorder objects in Makefile to favor platform default.

From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Mon Oct 19 2009 - 12:26:21 EST


"Ryan C. Gordon" <icculus@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Now the kernel will try the compatibility formats as a backup if the actual
> system format rejects the binary. As almost all binaries loaded won't be
> compatibility formats, this saves a few cycles for each process.

Perhaps this should be configurable. For a 64-bit arch with mostly
32-bit userspace the compat format should probably be tried first.

Andreas.

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