[parisc-linux] userspace function pointers in the kernel

[Alan Modra]

On 12 Sep 2000, David Huggins-Daines wrote:

> Cary Coutant <cary@cup.hp.com> writes:
> 
> > One way of avoiding the dynamic allocation by the dynamic loader is for 
> > the linker to allocate OFDs statically for each exported function, and 
> > for each hidden or static function whose address is taken.
> 
> Hm.  I'm not nearly as familiar with the linker code as I am with the
> dynamic linker code, so I'm not sure what it does.  But, as noted
> above, GNU libc does dynamic allocation, so it's probably not relevant.

Well, I'm more familiar with the linker than the dynamic linker :)

The model I'm thinking of for elf32-hppa is along these lines:

o  The linker creates a plt entry for all plabel relocs.  plt entries for
   elf32-hppa are a function address, linkage table pointer pair, so
   there's no need for the dynamic linker to allocate fptrs.
o  A dynamic plabel reloc will have the function symbol, and an addend
   into the plt.  This is a rather unusual reloc because the function
   symbol value is ignored when calculating the final value.
o  The dynamic linker builds a list or hash table of function symbols
   versus plt offsets, and adjusts plabels so that only one plt entry is
   ever used per function.

Alan Modra
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