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Nick Kralevich
5135b3ae6e linker: don't perform unnecessary mprotects
The linker only needs to mark the text segment as
writable iff the file has text relocations. Unnecessarily
calling mprotect when it isn't necessary is slow, and some
security enhanced kernels don't like it. Pages which are
simultaneously writable and executable are considered a no-no.

The vast majority of executables / shared libraries on Android
do NOT have text relocations.

Change-Id: Ic38ce30a99b7e33ecf21efd9c108547a58eafa35
2012-08-13 08:50:11 -07:00
Ben Cheng
06f0e74a2b Set the dynamic field in the link map for the linker itself.
Otherwise gdb will print a spurious warning each time gdb is used:

warning: .dynamic section for "/system/bin/linker" is not at the expected
address (wrong library or version mismatch?)

BUG:6946614
Change-Id: Ib21b8db0615751189c1601140deb43bc089289b6
2012-08-10 16:07:02 -07:00
Elliott Hughes
4688279db5 Clean up the linker a bit, remove prelinking support.
Also make the errors more readable, since none of us seemed to know
what they actually meant. The new style is still as verbose as the
old, but that's probably necessary in the absence of chained exceptions
in C. Here's what you'd see if you try to boot after removing
libsurfaceflinger.so:

  32267 32267 E AndroidRuntime: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Cannot load library: (linker.c:1629, pid 32259) soinfo_link_image: could not load library "libsystem_server.so" needed by "libandroid_servers.so"; caused by (linker.c:1629, pid 32259) soinfo_link_image: could not load library "libsurfaceflinger.so" needed by "libsystem_server.so"; caused by (linker.c:709, pid 32259) load_library: library "libsurfaceflinger.so" not found

This patch also fixes almost all of the compiler warnings.

Change-Id: I64bb59aed6d4e039c15ea45be2367f319ef879f8
2012-08-07 11:41:10 -07:00
Renamed from linker/linker.c (Browse further)