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Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> writes[1]: > There was a Spec benchmark (I forget which) which was memory bound and ran > twice as fast with 32-bit pointers. > > I copied the idea from DEC to the ELF abi, but never did all the other work > to allow the toolchain to take advantage. > > Amusingly, a later Spec changed the benchmark data sets to not fit into a > 32-bit address space, specifically because of this. > > I expect one could delete the ELF bit and personality and no one would > notice. Not even the 10 remaining Alpha users. In [2] it was pointed out that parts of setarch weren't working properly on alpha because it has it's own SET_PERSONALITY implementation. In the discussion that followed Richard Henderson pointed out that the 32bit pointer support for alpha was never completed. Fix this by removing alpha's 32bit pointer support. As a bit of paranoia refuse to execute any alpha binaries that have the EF_ALPHA_32BIT flag set. Just in case someone somewhere has binaries that try to use alpha's 32bit pointer support. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAFXwXrkgu=4Qn-v1PjnOR4SG0oUb9LSa0g6QXpBq4ttm52pJOQ@mail.gmail.com [1] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250103140148.370368-1-glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de [2] Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Reviewed-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> Tested-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87y0zfs26i.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.