[PATCH v7 3/4] Add system-wide tunables: Apply tunables part
Project / Subsystem
glibc / elf
Date
2024-02-21
Proposer
DJ Delorie <[email protected]>
Source type
public_inbox
Consensus
Proposed
Sentiment
5/10
Technical tradeoffs
- • Enables dynamic configuration but requires careful management of tunables.
- • Loading and applying tunables adds overhead to program startup.
- • Security policies are deferred to a later stage.
All attributes
- project
- glibc
- subsystem
- elf
- patch_id
- —
- discussion_id
- f2c3955f106f9ce2401a97c392d3bb3575b10b0b.1776449736.git.dj@redhat.com
- source_type
- public_inbox
- title
- [PATCH v7 3/4] Add system-wide tunables: Apply tunables part
- headline
- Add system-wide tunables: Apply tunables part
- tldr
- Loads ld.so.cache, fetches the tunables extension, and applies those tunables to the current program, deferring security policy enforcement.
- stakes
- Enables dynamic configuration of glibc behavior via tunables, potentially affecting performance and functionality.
- proposer
- DJ Delorie <[email protected]>
- consensus
- Proposed
- outcome
- stalled
- sentiment_score
- 5
- sentiment_rationale
- This patch implements a significant part of the tunables feature, but the deferral of security policies warrants a neutral score in the absence of further discussion.
- technical_tradeoffs
-
- • Enables dynamic configuration but requires careful management of tunables.
- • Loading and applying tunables adds overhead to program startup.
- • Security policies are deferred to a later stage.
- series_id
- glibc:add system-wide tunables: apply tunables part
- series_role
- reply
- series_parts
- []
- tags
-
- • tunables
- • ld.so.cache
- • dynamic configuration
- • performance
- bugzilla_url
- —
- date
- 2024-02-21T00:00:00.000Z
[PATCH v7 3/4] Add system-wide tunables: Apply tunables part
This patch loads the ld.so.cache, retrieves the tunables extension, and applies the tunables to the current program. Security policies are not yet applied in this patch.