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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | elf/dl-tunables.list | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/tunables.texi | 23 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/gen-tunables.awk | 1 |
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@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ 2017-06-07 Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org> + * elf/dl-tunables.list: Add glibc.tune.hwcap_mask. + * scripts/gen-tunables.awk: Include dl-procinfo.h. + * manual/tunables.texi: Document glibc.tune.hwcap_mask. + * elf/Versions (__tunable_set_val): Rename to __tunable_get_val. * elf/dl-tunables.c: Likewise. (do_tunable_update_val): New function. diff --git a/elf/dl-tunables.list b/elf/dl-tunables.list index b9f1488798..41ce9afa28 100644 --- a/elf/dl-tunables.list +++ b/elf/dl-tunables.list @@ -77,4 +77,11 @@ glibc { security_level: SXID_IGNORE } } + tune { + hwcap_mask { + type: UINT_64 + env_alias: LD_HWCAP_MASK + default: HWCAP_IMPORTANT + } + } } diff --git a/manual/tunables.texi b/manual/tunables.texi index ac8c38fbde..c9a4cb7fe5 100644 --- a/manual/tunables.texi +++ b/manual/tunables.texi @@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ their own namespace. @menu * Tunable names:: The structure of a tunable name * Memory Allocation Tunables:: Tunables in the memory allocation subsystem +* Hardware Capability Tunables:: Tunables that modify the hardware + capabilities seen by @theglibc{} @end menu @node Tunable names @@ -190,3 +192,24 @@ number of arenas is determined by the number of CPU cores online. For 32-bit systems the limit is twice the number of cores online and on 64-bit systems, it is 8 times the number of cores online. @end deftp + +@node Hardware Capability Tunables +@section Hardware Capability Tunables +@cindex hardware capability tunables +@cindex hwcap tunables +@cindex tunables, hwcap + +@deftp {Tunable namespace} glibc.tune +Behavior of @theglibc{} can be tuned to assume specific hardware capabilities +by setting the following tunables in the @code{tune} namespace: +@end deftp + +@deftp Tunable glibc.tune.hwcap_mask +This tunable supersedes the @env{LD_HWCAP_MASK} environment variable and is +identical in features. + +The @code{AT_HWCAP} key in the Auxilliary Vector specifies instruction set +extensions available in the processor at runtime for some architectures. The +@code{glibc.tune.hwcap_mask} tunable allows the user to mask out those +capabilities at runtime, thus disabling use of those extensions. +@end deftp diff --git a/scripts/gen-tunables.awk b/scripts/gen-tunables.awk index b10b00ebd6..93e5aff0ef 100644 --- a/scripts/gen-tunables.awk +++ b/scripts/gen-tunables.awk @@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ END { print "# error \"Do not include this file directly.\"" print "# error \"Include tunables.h instead.\"" print "#endif" + print "#include <dl-procinfo.h>\n" # Now, the enum names print "\ntypedef enum" |