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The reason why the old vDSOs were written in C using inline assembly was
purely because they were embedded in the C library directly as static
inline functions. This was practical during development, because it
meant you could invoke system calls without any library dependencies.
The vDSO was simply a copy of these functions.
Now that we require the use of the vDSO, there is no longer any need for
embedding them in C code directly. Rewriting them in assembly has the
advantage that they are closer to ideal (less useless branching, less
assumptions about registers remaining unclobbered by the kernel, etc).
They are also easier to build, as they no longer depend on the C type
information for CloudABI.
Obtained from: https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudabi
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=304554
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Now that we've switched over to using the vDSO on CloudABI, it becomes a
lot easier for us to phase out old features. System call numbering is no
longer something that's part of the ABI. It's fully based on names. As
long as the numbering used by the kernel and the vDSO is consistent
(which it always is), it's all right.
Let's put this to the test by removing a system call (thread_tcb_set())
that's already unused for quite some time now, but was only left intact
to serve as a placeholder. Sync in the new system call table that uses
alphabetic sorting of system calls.
Obtained from: https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudabi
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=304478
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CloudABI executables that are emulated on Mac OS X do not invoke system
calls through "syscall". Instead, they make use of a vDSO that is
provided by the emulator that provides symbols for all of the system
call routines. The emulator can implement these any way it likes.
At some point in time we want to do this for native execution as well,
so that CloudABI executables are entirely oblivious of how system calls
need to be performed. They will simply call into functions and let that
deal with all of the details.
These source files can be used to generate a simple vDSO that does
nothing more than invoke "syscall". All we need to do now is map it into
the processes.
Obtained from: https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudabi
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=303833
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