The glibc 2.34 release really should have added a GLIBC_2.34
symbol to the dynamic loader. With it, we could move functions such
as dlopen or pthread_key_create that work on process-global state
into the dynamic loader (once we have fixed a longstanding issue
with static linking). Without the GLIBC_2.34 symbol, yet another
new symbol version would be needed because old glibc will fail to
load binaries due to the missing symbol version in ld.so that newly
linked programs will require.
Reviewed-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
The relationship between the thread pointer and the rseq area
is made explicit. The constant offset can be used by JIT compilers
to optimize rseq access (e.g., for really fast sched_getcpu).
Extensibility is provided through __rseq_size and __rseq_flags.
(In the future, the kernel could request a different rseq size
via the auxiliary vector.)
Co-Authored-By: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
