Explanation by Matthias Schwarzott:
The linker will request an executable stack as soon as at least one
object file, that is linked in, wants an executable stack.
And the absence of the
.section .note.GNU-stack."",@progbits
is enough to tell the linker that an executable stack is needed.
So even an empty asm-file must at least contain this statement to not
force executable stacks on the whole executable.
* Define a helper macro MARK_STACK_NO_EXEC that disables the
executable stack.
* Instantiate this macro unconditionally at the end of each asm file.
Patch by Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@gentoo.org>.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@15692
the fact that all {VG,VEX}_TRC_VALUES have their lowest bit set. All
other targets can benefit from this trick too.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11781
make some attempt to schedule for Cortex-A8. Improves overall IPC
for none running perf/bz2.c "-O" from 0.879 to 0.925.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11780
"insn_address >> 1". The former is appropriate for ARM code, where
all insns are 4-sized and 4-aligned, but not for Thumb code, where the
minimum size and alignment is 2. The old scheme happened to work for
Thumb (indeed, any hash function would), but caused huge amounts of
conflict misses in the fast cache for some programs.
The change has been observed to reduce conflict misses by up to 100
times, and in some cases, improves performance significantly for Thumb
code. Performance of ARM code is unchanged or possibly a bit worse.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11716
the changes to do with reading and using ELF and DWARF3 info.
This breaks all targets except amd64-linux and x86-linux.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@10982
