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| author | Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> | 2008-07-21 22:48:46 +0400 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2008-07-25 09:44:39 +0400 |
| commit | 483fad1c3fa1060d7e6710e84a065ad514571739 (patch) | |
| tree | 98c2da31a58c71d1ae9c808bdf232cbbbe060550 /include/linux | |
| parent | e9f76354ce83a20c7768ad37caa033f6506b4f96 (diff) | |
| download | linux-483fad1c3fa1060d7e6710e84a065ad514571739.tar.xz | |
ELF loader support for auxvec base platform string
Some IBM POWER-based platforms have the ability to run in a
mode which mostly appears to the OS as a different processor from the
actual hardware. For example, a Power6 system may appear to be a
Power5+, which makes the AT_PLATFORM value "power5+". This means that
programs are restricted to the ISA supported by Power5+;
Power6-specific instructions are treated as illegal.
However, some applications (virtual machines, optimized libraries) can
benefit from knowledge of the underlying CPU model. A new aux vector
entry, AT_BASE_PLATFORM, will denote the actual hardware. For
example, on a Power6 system in Power5+ compatibility mode, AT_PLATFORM
will be "power5+" and AT_BASE_PLATFORM will be "power6". The idea is
that AT_PLATFORM indicates the instruction set supported, while
AT_BASE_PLATFORM indicates the underlying microarchitecture.
If the architecture has defined ELF_BASE_PLATFORM, copy that value to
the user stack in the same manner as ELF_PLATFORM.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/auxvec.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/auxvec.h b/include/linux/auxvec.h index 0da17d14fd13..d7afa9dd6635 100644 --- a/include/linux/auxvec.h +++ b/include/linux/auxvec.h @@ -26,9 +26,13 @@ #define AT_SECURE 23 /* secure mode boolean */ +#define AT_BASE_PLATFORM 24 /* string identifying real platform, may + * differ from AT_PLATFORM. */ + #define AT_EXECFN 31 /* filename of program */ + #ifdef __KERNEL__ -#define AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE 17 /* NEW_AUX_ENT entries in auxiliary table */ +#define AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE 18 /* NEW_AUX_ENT entries in auxiliary table */ /* number of "#define AT_.*" above, minus {AT_NULL, AT_IGNORE, AT_NOTELF} */ #endif |