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From: "nyh at math dot technion.ac.il" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org> To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org Subject: [Bug libgomp/65070] New: libgomp calls syscall instruction directly Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 11:23:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <bug-65070-4@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/> (raw) https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65070 Bug ID: 65070 Summary: libgomp calls syscall instruction directly Product: gcc Version: 4.9.2 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: libgomp Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: nyh at math dot technion.ac.il CC: jakub at gcc dot gnu.org The code in libgomp/config/linux/x86/futex.h is needlessly complicated: It contains a definition of SYS_futex, and contains two variants (x86 and x86_64) of the assembly code needed to run a system call. But unless I'm missing something, all of this is quite redundant - glibc already has the <sys/syscall.h> defining SYS_futex, and a syscall() function calling a system call in the right way for both x86 and x86_64. Using the assembly code directly instead of calling the syscall() function is a tiny bit faster, but since this code only use for fairly slow situations anyway (a futex is only used when a context switch is necessary), the extra function-call overhead should be, I think, negligible. Finally, my ulterior motive for making this code call syscall() instead of machine instructions directly is that the latter breaks on the OSv operating system: https://github.com/cloudius-systems/osv/issues/590
next reply other threads:[~2015-02-15 11:23 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2015-02-15 11:23 nyh at math dot technion.ac.il [this message] 2015-02-15 16:01 ` [Bug libgomp/65070] " jakub at gcc dot gnu.org 2015-02-15 17:10 ` nyh at math dot technion.ac.il 2016-08-07 6:21 ` nyh at math dot technion.ac.il
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