Add a new tunable (glibc.tune.cpu) to override CPU identification on
aarch64. This is useful in two cases: one where it is desirable to
pretend to be another CPU for purposes of testing or because routines
written for that CPU are beneficial for specific workloads and second
where the underlying kernel does not support emulation of MRS to get
the MIDR of the CPU.
* elf/dl-tunables.h (tunable_is_name): Move from...
* elf/dl-tunables.c (is_name): ... here.
(parse_tunables, __tunables_init): Adjust.
* manual/tunables.texi: Document glibc.tune.cpu.
* sysdeps/aarch64/dl-tunables.list: New file.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/cpu-features.c (struct
cpu_list): New type.
(cpu_list): New list of CPU names and their MIDR.
(get_midr_from_mcpu): New function.
(init_cpu_features): Override MIDR if necessary.
Rename glibc.tune.ifunc to glibc.tune.hwcaps and move it to
sysdeps/x86/dl-tunables.list since it is x86 specicifc. Also
change type of data_cache_size, data_cache_size and
non_temporal_threshold to unsigned long int to match size_t.
Remove usage DEFAULT_STRLEN from cpu-tunables.c.
* elf/dl-tunables.list (glibc.tune.ifunc): Removed.
* sysdeps/x86/dl-tunables.list (glibc.tune.hwcaps): New.
Remove security_level on all fields.
* manual/tunables.texi: Replace ifunc with hwcaps.
* sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c (TUNABLE_CALLBACK (set_ifunc)):
Renamed to ..
(TUNABLE_CALLBACK (set_hwcaps)): This.
(init_cpu_features): Updated.
* sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.h (cpu_features): Change type of
data_cache_size, data_cache_size and non_temporal_threshold to
unsigned long int.
* sysdeps/x86/cpu-tunables.c (DEFAULT_STRLEN): Removed.
(TUNABLE_CALLBACK (set_ifunc)): Renamed to ...
(TUNABLE_CALLBACK (set_hwcaps)): This. Update comments. Don't
use DEFAULT_STRLEN.
The current IFUNC selection is based on microbenchmarks in glibc. It
should give the best performance for most workloads. But other choices
may have better performance for a particular workload or on the hardware
which wasn't available at the selection was made. The environment
variable, GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.tune.ifunc=-xxx,yyy,-zzz...., can be used
to enable CPU/ARCH feature yyy, disable CPU/ARCH feature yyy and zzz,
where the feature name is case-sensitive and has to match the ones in
cpu-features.h. It can be used by glibc developers to override the
IFUNC selection to tune for a new processor or improve performance for
a particular workload. It isn't intended for normal end users.
NOTE: the IFUNC selection may change over time. Please check all
multiarch implementations when experimenting.
Also, GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.tune.x86_non_temporal_threshold=NUMBER is
provided to set threshold to use non temporal store to NUMBER,
GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.tune.x86_data_cache_size=NUMBER to set data cache
size, GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.tune.x86_shared_cache_size=NUMBER to set
shared cache size.
* elf/dl-tunables.list (tune): Add ifunc,
x86_non_temporal_threshold,
x86_data_cache_size and x86_shared_cache_size.
* manual/tunables.texi: Document glibc.tune.ifunc,
glibc.tune.x86_data_cache_size, glibc.tune.x86_shared_cache_size
and glibc.tune.x86_non_temporal_threshold.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/dl-sysdep.c: New file.
* sysdeps/x86/cpu-tunables.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/x86/cacheinfo.c
(init_cacheinfo): Check and get data cache size, shared cache
size and non temporal threshold from cpu_features.
* sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.c [HAVE_TUNABLES] (TUNABLE_NAMESPACE):
New.
[HAVE_TUNABLES] Include <unistd.h>.
[HAVE_TUNABLES] Include <elf/dl-tunables.h>.
[HAVE_TUNABLES] (TUNABLE_CALLBACK (set_ifunc)): Likewise.
[HAVE_TUNABLES] (init_cpu_features): Use TUNABLE_GET to set
IFUNC selection, data cache size, shared cache size and non
temporal threshold.
* sysdeps/x86/cpu-features.h (cpu_features): Add data_cache_size,
shared_cache_size and non_temporal_threshold.
Add LD_HWCAP_MASK to tunables in preparation of it being removed from
rtld.c. This allows us to read LD_HWCAP_MASK much earlier so that it
can influence IFUNC resolution in aarch64.
This patch does not actually do anything other than read the
LD_HWCAP_MASK variable and add the tunables way to set the
LD_HWCAP_MASK, i.e. via the glibc.tune.hwcap_mask tunable. In a
follow-up patch, the _dl_hwcap_mask will be replaced with
glibc.tune.hwcap_mask to complete the transition.
* elf/dl-tunables.list: Add glibc.tune.hwcap_mask.
* scripts/gen-tunables.awk: Include dl-procinfo.h.
* manual/tunables.texi: Document glibc.tune.hwcap_mask.
Create a new node for tunables documentation and add notes for the
malloc tunables.
* manual/tunables.texi: New chapter.
* manual/Makefile (chapters): Add it.
* manual/probes.texi (@node): Point to the Tunables chapter.
