Re: [PATCH] UML: don't discard .text.exit section

[Andrey Ryabinin]

On 08/19/2016 02:16 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> On 19.08.2016 12:48, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
>> On 08/19/2016 03:14 AM, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 3:08 AM, Andrey Ryabinin
>>> <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry for delays, I am travelling.
>>>>> Do we need ".fini_array" section? It's also destructors that we don't
>>>>> run. Or does UML use them? Does discarding ".fini_array" help?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> libc has desctructors and use them for whatever purpose it needs.
>>>
>>>
>>> Does UML actually gracefully exit running global destructors? That
>>> would also require gracefully shutting down all threads/cpus. Doesn't
>>> it just _exit (or syscall(SYS_exit_group))?
>>>
>>
>> Sigh, I dunno, I didn't look that far. My intention was to fix build and keep old behavior unaffected.
>> If you want to wipe destructors, and think that this is ok, go ahead.
> 
> UML exits like any regular C program does.
> The main() function is in arch/um/os-Linux/main.c, when the kernel terminates,
> hence linux_main() returns back to main() it just returns the exit code.
> At this point libc's destructors will run, right?
> 
Sounds right to me.

> Thanks,
> //richard
>