Fixes BZ #15339.
NSS_STATUS_UNAVAIL may mean that a necessary input resource is not
available. This could occur in a number of cases including when the
network is down, system runs out of file descriptors, etc. The
correct differentiator in such a case is the h_errno, which gives the
nature of failure. In case of failures other than a simple 'not
found', we set h_errno as NETDB_INTERNAL and let errno be the
identifier for the exact error.
This implementation speed up memset in several ways. First is avoiding
expensive computed jump. Second is using fact that arguments of memset
are most of time aligned to 8 bytes.
Benchmark results on:
kam.mff.cuni.cz/~ondra/benchmark_string/memset_profile_result27_04_13.tar.bz2
We add new memcpy version that uses unaligned loads which are fast
on modern processors. This allows second improvement which is avoiding
computed jump which is relatively expensive operation.
Tests available here:
http://kam.mff.cuni.cz/~ondra/memcpy_profile_result27_04_13.tar.bz2
Resolves: #15424
The compiler would optimize the benchmark function call out of the
loop and call it only once, resulting in blazingly fast times for some
benchmarks (notably atan, sin and cos). Mark the inputs as volatile
so that the code is forced to read again from the input for each
iteration.
[BZ #15442] This adds support for the inverse interpretation of the
quiet bit of IEEE 754 floating-point NaN data that some processors
use. This includes in particular MIPS architecture processors; the
payload used for the canonical qNaN encoding is updated accordingly
so as not to interfere with the quiet bit.
The EXTRACT_WORDS64 and INSERT_WORDS64 macros use movd for a 64-bit
operation. Somehow gcc manages to turn this into movq, but LLVM won't.
2013-05-15 Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/math_private.h (MOVQ): New macro.
(EXTRACT_WORDS64) Use where appropriate.
(INSERT_WORDS64) Likewise.
While these instructions accept memory operands, only one operand
may be a memory operand. Giving two operands xm constraints gives
the compiler the option of using memory for both operands, which
would result in invalid assembly code. Using x for all operands is
more appropriate, as most x86_64 calling conventions will pass the
arguments in registers anyway.
2013-05-15 Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/multiarch/s_fma.c (__fma_fma4): Replace xm
constraints with x constraints.
* sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/multiarch/s_fmaf.c (__fmaf_fma4): Likewise.
it is impossible to create an alias of a common symbol (as
compat_symbol does), because common symbols do not have a section or
an offset until linked. GNU as tolerates aliases of common symbols by
simply creating another common symbol, but other assemblers (notably
LLVM's integrated assembler) are less tolerant.
2013-05-15 Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
* malloc/obstack.c (_obstack_compat): Add initializer.
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Loading of the vDSO pseudo-hwcap from the type 2 GNU note is
a rather arcane and poorly documented process. Given that I had
a chance to review this code today I thought I would add all
of the things I had to lookup to verify the validity of the
process.
With a single .note.GNU the vDSO can register up to 64 flags,
though in practice you are limited to 64 - _DL_FIRST_EXTRA
bits which on x86 is 12 bits.
The only use of this that I know of is in the Xen support
in Linux where they use the 1st bit to indicate "nosegneg".
I see "We use bit 1 to avoid bugs in some versions of glibc
when bit 0 is used; the choice is otherwise arbitrary.", but
no reference to a glibc bug anywhere. The code as-is should
support bit zero, so we still have that free for future use.
The kernel, glibc, and ld.so.cache must coordinate to ensure
that bit values don't go too high and are used consistently.
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2013-05-13 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
* elf/dl-hwcaps.c (_dl_important_hwcaps): Comment vDSO hwcap loading.
* elf/ldconfig.c (is_hwcap_platform): Comment each hwcap check.
(main): Comment "tls" pseudo-hwcap.
HP_TIMING uses native timestamping instructions if available, thus
greatly reducing the overhead of recording start and end times for
function calls. For architectures that don't have HP_TIMING
available, we fall back to the clock_gettime bits. One may also
override this by invoking the benchmark as follows:
make USE_CLOCK_GETTIME=1 bench
and get the benchmark results using clock_gettime. One has to do
`make bench-clean` to ensure that the benchmark programs are rebuilt.
The algorithm for scanning dependencies upon dlclose is
less than immediately obvious. This patch adds two bits
of comments that explain why you start the dependency
search at l_initfini[1], and why you need to restart
the search.
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2013-05-09 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
* elf/dl-close.c (_dl_close_worker): Add comments.
Rewrite the first paragraph to talk about users not humans,
and to use correct English.
Clarify that it is the mapping of messages to IDs that
impacts the design of the message translation API.
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2013-05-07 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
* manual/message.texi (Message Translation): Talk about users.
Message to key mapping impacts design.
