From: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>,
Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/28] aarch64: Add glibc-hwcaps support
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 16:09:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201014150951.GG3819@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87imbcooiw.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com>
The 10/14/2020 16:44, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Szabolcs Nagy:
>
> > The 10/14/2020 11:15, Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha wrote:
> >> On 14/10/2020 11:08, Florian Weimer wrote:
> >> > * Adhemerval Zanella via Libc-alpha:
> >> >> On 01/10/2020 13:33, Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha wrote:
> >> >>> At this point, only the "atomics" subdirectory is available,
> >> >>> for libraries built using LSE atomics.
> >> >>
> >> >> LGTM, thanks.
> >> >>
> >> >> Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
> >> >
> >> > Thanks. I didn't want to skip AArch64, but it's really more of a stub
> >> > implementation:
> >> >
> >> >>> +const char _dl_hwcaps_subdirs[] = "atomics";
> >> >
> >> > Does this still make sense with GCC defaulting to -moutline-atomics for
> >> > ARMv8a? That's what I wonder.
> >> >
> >> > Eventually, we need to define some levels for AArch64, and I'm not sure
> >> > to what extent they would align with the official 8.X versions. To me,
> >> > they look more like a bouquet you can choose from.
> >>
> >> I am not sure how ARM maintainers would like to handle it, either by
> >> defining based on ARMv8.x revisions, a subsets of HWCAP capabilities,
> >> or by not defining anything.
> >>
> >> For now I think the atomic makes sense because of -moutline-atomics,
> >> although it is essentially ARMv8.1.
> >
> > the atomics path logic was added in glibc 2.28 in
> > commit 397c54c1afa531242602fe3ac7bb47eff0e909f9
> > (see the reasoning in the commit message).
> >
> > since then this is public api that users may rely
> > on (although likely there are not many users..)
> >
> > so i dont want to remove it (and yes it's not
> > very helpful now that outline-atomics is the
> > default in gcc).
>
> This patch adds glibc-hwcaps/atomics as a new subdirectory. The whole
> series does not remove the legacy directories.
>
> Based on what you wrote, I should drop this patch, right?
ah i missed that legacy is handled independently.
in that case, yes please drop this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-14 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 103+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-01 16:31 [PATCH 00/28] " Florian Weimer
2020-10-01 16:31 ` [PATCH 01/28] elf: Do not search HWCAP subdirectories in statically linked binaries Florian Weimer
2020-10-01 18:22 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-01 18:24 ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-10-01 18:29 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-01 20:24 ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-10-01 16:31 ` [PATCH 02/28] elf: Implement __rtld_malloc_is_full Florian Weimer
2020-10-01 18:23 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-08 9:44 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-01 16:31 ` [PATCH 03/28] elf: Implement _dl_write Florian Weimer
2020-10-05 19:46 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-01 16:31 ` [PATCH 04/28] elf: Extract command-line/environment variables state from rtld.c Florian Weimer
2020-10-06 20:45 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-08 11:32 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-01 16:32 ` [PATCH 05/28] elf: Move ld.so error/help output to _dl_usage Florian Weimer
2020-10-06 21:06 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-08 12:19 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-01 16:32 ` [PATCH 06/28] elf: Record whether paths come from LD_LIBRARY_PATH or --library-path Florian Weimer
2020-10-07 16:39 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-07 16:49 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-01 16:32 ` [PATCH 07/28] elf: Implement ld.so --help Florian Weimer
2020-10-07 17:16 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-08 13:13 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-01 16:32 ` [PATCH 08/28] elf: Implement ld.so --version Florian Weimer
2020-10-07 18:36 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-07 18:38 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-08 13:37 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-01 16:32 ` [PATCH 09/28] scripts/update-copyrights: Update csu/version.c, elf/dl-usage.c Florian Weimer
2020-10-07 18:41 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-01 16:32 ` [PATCH 10/28] elf: Use the term "program interpreter" in the ld.so help message Florian Weimer
2020-10-07 21:08 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-08 14:08 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-01 16:32 ` [PATCH 11/28] elf: Print the full name of the dynamic loader " Florian Weimer
2020-10-08 12:38 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-01 16:32 ` [PATCH 12/28] elf: Make __rtld_env_path_list and __rtld_search_dirs global variables Florian Weimer
2020-10-08 13:27 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-01 16:32 ` [PATCH 13/28] elf: Add library search path information to ld.so --help Florian Weimer
2020-10-08 16:22 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-01 16:33 ` [PATCH 14/28] elf: Enhance ld.so --help to print HWCAP subdirectories Florian Weimer
2020-10-08 16:27 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-09 8:18 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-09 13:49 ` Matheus Castanho
2020-10-09 17:08 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-09 17:12 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-09 18:54 ` Matheus Castanho
2020-10-12 9:47 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-01 16:33 ` [PATCH 15/28] elf: Do not pass GLRO(dl_platform), GLRO(dl_platformlen) to _dl_important_hwcaps Florian Weimer
2020-10-08 18:04 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-01 16:33 ` [PATCH 16/28] elf: Add glibc-hwcaps support for LD_LIBRARY_PATH Florian Weimer
2020-10-08 10:13 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2020-10-09 9:08 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-09 10:50 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2020-10-09 10:55 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-09 11:03 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2020-10-08 23:16 ` Paul A. Clarke
2020-10-09 8:56 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-09 13:19 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-12 11:54 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-01 16:33 ` [PATCH 17/28] x86_64: Add glibc-hwcaps support Florian Weimer
2020-10-01 16:33 ` [PATCH 18/28] powerpc64le: " Florian Weimer
2020-10-01 18:56 ` Paul A. Clarke
2020-10-05 9:47 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-05 19:15 ` Paul A. Clarke
2020-10-06 12:20 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-06 17:45 ` Paul A. Clarke
2020-10-09 9:06 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-01 16:33 ` [PATCH 19/28] s390x: Add " Florian Weimer
2020-10-01 16:33 ` [PATCH 20/28] aarch64: " Florian Weimer
2020-10-14 13:46 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-14 14:08 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-14 14:15 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-14 14:37 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2020-10-14 14:43 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-14 15:13 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-14 14:44 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-14 15:09 ` Szabolcs Nagy [this message]
2020-10-01 16:33 ` [PATCH 21/28] elf: Add endianness markup to ld.so.cache Florian Weimer
2020-10-14 14:07 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-01 16:33 ` [PATCH 22/28] elf: Add extension mechanism " Florian Weimer
2020-10-15 17:52 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-30 12:22 ` Florian Weimer
2020-11-03 12:45 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-11-03 15:30 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-01 16:34 ` [PATCH 23/28] elf: Unify old and new format cache handling code in ld.so Florian Weimer
2020-10-16 14:37 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-30 13:22 ` Florian Weimer
2020-11-03 13:02 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-01 16:34 ` [PATCH 24/28] elf: Implement a string table for ldconfig, with tail merging Florian Weimer
2020-10-20 14:25 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-30 17:08 ` Florian Weimer
2020-11-03 13:05 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-11-03 15:29 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-01 16:34 ` [PATCH 25/28] elf: Implement tail merging of strings in ldconfig Florian Weimer
2020-10-22 21:08 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-30 17:36 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-01 16:34 ` [PATCH 26/28] elf: In ldconfig, extract the new_sub_entry function from search_dir Florian Weimer
2020-10-27 13:15 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-01 16:34 ` [PATCH 27/28] elf: Process glibc-hwcaps subdirectories in ldconfig Florian Weimer
2020-10-27 17:28 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-11-04 11:57 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-01 16:34 ` [PATCH 28/28] elf: Add glibc-hwcaps subdirectory support to ld.so cache processing Florian Weimer
2020-10-01 16:50 ` [PATCH 00/28] glibc-hwcaps support H.J. Lu
2020-10-01 16:54 ` Florian Weimer
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