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This enables searching shared libraries in atomics/ when the hardware
supports LSE atomics of armv8.1 so one can provide optimized variants
of libraries in a portable way.
LSE atomics does not affect library abi, the new instructions can
interoperate with old ones.
I considered the earlier comments on the patch
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-04/msg00400.html
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-04/msg00625.html
It turns out that the way glibc dynamic linker decides on the search
path is not very flexible: it wants to use hwcap bits and associated
strings. So some targets reuse hwcap bits for glibc internal purposes
to affect the search logic. But hwcap is an interface with the kernel,
glibc should not allocate bits in it for its internal logic as that
limits future hwcap extensions and confusing to users who expect to see
hwcap bits in ifunc resolvers. Instead of rewriting the dynamic linker
path logic (which affects all targets) this patch just uses the existing
mechanism, however this means that the path name has to be the hwcap
name "atomics" and cannot be changed to something more meaningful to
users.
It is hard to tell how much performance benefit this can give, in
principle armv8.1 atomics can be better optimized in the hardware, so it
can make a difference for synchronization heavy code. On some systems
such multilib setup may be the only viable way to get optimized
libraries used.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/dl-procinfo.h (HWCAP_IMPORTANT): Add
HWCAP_ATOMICS.
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