At the GNU Tools Cauldron 2016, the state of the current tunables
patchset was considered OK with the addition of a way to select the
frontend to be used for the tunables. That is, to avoid being locked
in to one type of frontend initially, it should be possible to build
tunables with a different frontend with something as simple as a
configure switch.
To that effect, this patch enhances the --enable-tunables option to
accept more values than just 'yes' or 'no'. The current frontend (and
default when enable-tunables is 'yes') is called 'valstring', to
select the frontend where a single environment variable is set to a
colon-separated value string. More such frontends can be added in
future.
* Makeconfig (have-tunables): Check for non-negative instead
of positive.
* configure.ac: Add 'valstring' as a valid value for
--enable-tunables.
* configure: Regenerate.
* elf/Makefile (have-tunables): Check for non-negative instead
of positive.
(CPPFLAGS-dl-tunables.c): Define TUNABLES_FRONTEND for
dl-tunables.c.
* elf/dl-tunables.c (GLIBC_TUNABLES): Define only when
TUNABLES_FRONTEND == TUNABLES_FRONTEND_valstring.
(tunables_strdup): Likewise.
(disable_tunables): Likewise.
(parse_tunables): Likewise.
(__tunables_init): Process GLIBC_TUNABLES envvar only when.
TUNABLES_FRONTEND == TUNABLES_FRONTEND_valstring.
* elf/dl-tunables.h (TUNABLES_FRONTEND_valstring): New macro.
(TUNABLES_FRONTEND_yes): New macro, define as
TUNABLES_FRONTEND_valstring by default.
* manual/install.texi: Document new acceptable values for
--enable-tunables.
* INSTALL: Regenerate.
Read tunables values from the users using the GLIBC_TUNABLES
environment variable. The value of this variable is a colon-separated
list of name=value pairs. So a typical string would look like this:
GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.malloc.mmap_threshold=2048:glibc.malloc.trim_threshold=1024
* config.make.in (have-loop-to-function): Define.
* elf/Makefile (CFLAGS-dl-tunables.c): Add
-fno-tree-loop-distribute-patterns.
* elf/dl-tunables.c: Include libc-internals.h.
(GLIBC_TUNABLES): New macro.
(tunables_strdup): New function.
(parse_tunables): New function.
(min_strlen): New function.
(__tunables_init): Use the new functions and macro.
(disable_tunable): Disable tunable from GLIBC_TUNABLES.
* malloc/tst-malloc-usable-tunables.c: New test case.
* malloc/tst-malloc-usable-static-tunables.c: New test case.
* malloc/Makefile (tests, tests-static): Add tests.
The tunables framework allows us to uniformly manage and expose global
variables inside glibc as switches to users. tunables/README has
instructions for glibc developers to add new tunables.
Tunables support can be enabled by passing the --enable-tunables
configure flag to the configure script. This patch only adds a
framework and does not pose any limitations on how tunable values are
read from the user. It also adds environment variables used in malloc
behaviour tweaking to the tunables framework as a PoC of the
compatibility interface.
* manual/install.texi: Add --enable-tunables option.
* INSTALL: Regenerate.
* README.tunables: New file.
* Makeconfig (CPPFLAGS): Define TOP_NAMESPACE.
(before-compile): Generate dl-tunable-list.h early.
* config.h.in: Add HAVE_TUNABLES.
* config.make.in: Add have-tunables.
* configure.ac: Add --enable-tunables option.
* configure: Regenerate.
* csu/init-first.c (__libc_init_first): Move
__libc_init_secure earlier...
* csu/init-first.c (LIBC_START_MAIN):... to here.
Include dl-tunables.h, libc-internal.h.
(LIBC_START_MAIN) [!SHARED]: Initialize tunables for static
binaries.
* elf/Makefile (dl-routines): Add dl-tunables.
* elf/Versions (ld): Add __tunable_set_val to GLIBC_PRIVATE
namespace.
* elf/dl-support (_dl_nondynamic_init): Unset MALLOC_CHECK_
only when !HAVE_TUNABLES.
* elf/rtld.c (process_envvars): Likewise.
* elf/dl-sysdep.c [HAVE_TUNABLES]: Include dl-tunables.h
(_dl_sysdep_start): Call __tunables_init.
* elf/dl-tunable-types.h: New file.
* elf/dl-tunables.c: New file.
* elf/dl-tunables.h: New file.
* elf/dl-tunables.list: New file.
* malloc/tst-malloc-usable-static.c: New test case.
* malloc/Makefile (tests-static): Add it.
* malloc/arena.c [HAVE_TUNABLES]: Include dl-tunables.h.
Define TUNABLE_NAMESPACE.
(DL_TUNABLE_CALLBACK (set_mallopt_check)): New function.
(DL_TUNABLE_CALLBACK_FNDECL): New macro. Use it to define
callback functions.
(ptmalloc_init): Set tunable values.
* scripts/gen-tunables.awk: New file.
* sysdeps/mach/hurd/dl-sysdep.c: Include dl-tunables.h.
(_dl_sysdep_start): Call __tunables_init.
