The elision interfaces are closely aligned between the targets that
implement them, so declare them in the generic <lowlevellock.h>
file.
Empty .c stubs are provided, so that fewer makefile updates
under sysdeps are needed. Also simplify initialization via
__libc_early_init.
The symbols __lll_clocklock_elision, __lll_lock_elision,
__lll_trylock_elision, __lll_unlock_elision, __pthread_force_elision
move into libc. For the time being, non-hidden references are used
from libpthread to access them, but once that part of libpthread
is moved into libc, hidden symbols will be used again. (Hidden
references seem desirable to reduce the likelihood of transactions
aborts.)
I used these shell commands:
../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright
(cd ../glibc && git commit -am"[this commit message]")
and then ignored the output, which consisted lines saying "FOO: warning:
copyright statement not found" for each of 6694 files FOO.
I then removed trailing white space from benchtests/bench-pthread-locks.c
and iconvdata/tst-iconv-big5-hkscs-to-2ucs4.c, to work around this
diagnostic from Savannah:
remote: *** pre-commit check failed ...
remote: *** error: lines with trailing whitespace found
remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master
This uses atomic operations to access lock elision metadata that is accessed
concurrently (ie, adapt_count fields). The size of the data is less than a
word but accessed only with atomic loads and stores; therefore, we add
support for shorter-size atomic load and stores too.
* include/atomic.h (__atomic_check_size_ls): New.
(atomic_load_relaxed, atomic_load_acquire, atomic_store_relaxed,
atomic_store_release): Use it.
* sysdeps/x86/elide.h (ACCESS_ONCE): Remove.
(elision_adapt, ELIDE_LOCK): Use atomics.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/elision-lock.c (__lll_lock_elision): Use
atomics and improve code comments.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/elision-trylock.c
(__lll_trylock_elision): Likewise.
