From 2b802d55b70154d1864a4f0bac973af354408e83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Szabolcs Nagy Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 15:30:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] aarch64: add HWCAP_ATOMICS to HWCAP_IMPORTANT This enables searching shared libraries in atomics/ when the hardware supports LSE atomics of armv8.1 so one can provide optimized variants of libraries in a portable way. LSE atomics does not affect library abi, the new instructions can interoperate with old ones. I considered the earlier comments on the patch https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-04/msg00400.html https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-04/msg00625.html It turns out that the way glibc dynamic linker decides on the search path is not very flexible: it wants to use hwcap bits and associated strings. So some targets reuse hwcap bits for glibc internal purposes to affect the search logic. But hwcap is an interface with the kernel, glibc should not allocate bits in it for its internal logic as that limits future hwcap extensions and confusing to users who expect to see hwcap bits in ifunc resolvers. Instead of rewriting the dynamic linker path logic (which affects all targets) this patch just uses the existing mechanism, however this means that the path name has to be the hwcap name "atomics" and cannot be changed to something more meaningful to users. It is hard to tell how much performance benefit this can give, in principle armv8.1 atomics can be better optimized in the hardware, so it can make a difference for synchronization heavy code. On some systems such multilib setup may be the only viable way to get optimized libraries used. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/dl-procinfo.h (HWCAP_IMPORTANT): Add HWCAP_ATOMICS. (cherry picked from commit 397c54c1afa531242602fe3ac7bb47eff0e909f9) --- ChangeLog | 5 +++++ sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/dl-procinfo.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 732e89dcd5..b10a76f513 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2018-07-06 Szabolcs Nagy + + * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/dl-procinfo.h (HWCAP_IMPORTANT): Add + HWCAP_ATOMICS. + 2018-07-06 Szabolcs Nagy * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/cpu-features.c (init_cpu_features): diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/dl-procinfo.h b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/dl-procinfo.h index 63bdf75bb5..a72eaaebe3 100644 --- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/dl-procinfo.h +++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/dl-procinfo.h @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ #define _DL_HWCAP_LAST 15 /* No additional library search paths. */ -#define HWCAP_IMPORTANT 0 +#define HWCAP_IMPORTANT HWCAP_ATOMICS static inline const char * __attribute__ ((unused))