Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and
s390x. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX
capable systems. The lock elision code is only built with
--enable-lock-elision=yes and then requires a GCC version supporting
the TX builtins. With lock elision default mutexes are elided via
__builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports transactions. By default lock
elision is not enabled and the elision code is not built.
This patch removes the arch specific powerpc implementation and instead
uses the linux default one. Although the current powerpc implementation
already constains the required memory barriers for correct
initialization, the default implementation shows a better performance on
newer chips.
[BZ #15215] This unifies various pthread_once architecture-specific
implementations which were using the same algorithm with slightly different
implementations. It also adds missing memory barriers that are required for
correctness.
This patch moves the __PTHREAD_SPINS definition to arch specific header
since pthread_mutex_t layout is also arch specific. This leads to no
need to defining __PTHREAD_MUTEX_HAVE_ELISION and thus removing of the
undefined compiler warning.
When profiling programs with lock problems with perf record -g dwarf,
libunwind can currently not backtrace through the futex and unlock
functions in pthread. This is because they use out of line sections,
and those are not correctly described in dwarf2 (I believe needs
dwarf3 or 4).
This patch first removes the out of line sections. They only save a
single jump, but cause a lot of pain. Then it converts the now inline
lock code to use the now standard gas .cfi_* commands.
With these changes libunwind/perf can backtrace through the futex
functions now.
Longer term it would be likely better to just use C futex() functions
on x86 like all the other architectures. This would clean the code up
even more.
ChangeLog:
2014-03-17 Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org>
* nptl/sysdeps/pthread/pthread.h: Check
__PTHREAD_MUTEX_HAVE_ELISION is defined before testing
its value.
We got rid of LinuxThreads in 2005, but we didn't remove
__LT_SPINLOCK_INIT back then. Do it now.
* nptl/sysdeps/pthread/bits/libc-lockP.h [defined NOT_IN_libc
&& !defined IS_IN_libpthread && __LT_SPINNOCK_INIT != 0]:
Remove.
