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Commit c402355dfa7807b8e0adb27c009135a7e2b9f1b0 ("libio: Disable
vtable validation in case of interposition [BZ #23313]") only covered
the interposable glibc 2.1 handles, in libio/stdfiles.c. The
parallel code in libio/oldstdfiles.c needs similar detection logic.
Fixes (again) commit db3476aff19b75c4fdefbe65fcd5f0a90588ba51
("libio: Implement vtable verification [BZ #20191]").
Change-Id: Ief6f9f17e91d1f7263421c56a7dc018f4f595c21
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Similarly to __vfprintf_internal and __vfscanf_internal, the internal
implementation of syslog functions (__vsyslog_internal) takes a
'mode_flags' parameter used to select the format of long double
parameters. This patch adds variants of the syslog functions that set
'mode_flags' to PRINTF_LDBL_USES_FLOAT128, thus enabling the correct
printing of long double values on powerpc64le, when long double has IEEE
binary128 format (-mabi=ieeelongdouble).
Tested for powerpc64le.
Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. Murphy <murphyp@linux.ibm.com>
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Similarly to the functions from the *printf family, this patch adds
implementations for __obstack_*printf* functions that set the
'mode_flags' parameter to PRINTF_LDBL_USES_FLOAT128, before making calls
to __vfprintf_internal (indirectly through __obstack_vprintf_internal).
Tested for powerpc64le.
Reviewed-by: Paul E. Murphy <murphyp@linux.ibm.com>
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Commit IDs 9771e6cb5102 and 7597b0c7f711 added tests for the functions
from err.h and error.h that can take long double parameters.
Afterwards, commit ID f0eaf8627654 reused them on architectures that
changed the long double format from the same as double to something else
(i.e.: architectures that imply ldbl-opt). This patch reuses it again
for IEEE long double on powerpc64le.
Tested for powerpc64le.
Reviewed-by: Paul E. Murphy <murphyp@linux.ibm.com>
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Use the recently added, internal functions, __error_at_line_internal and
__error_internal, to provide error.h functions that can take long double
arguments with IEEE binary128 format on platforms where long double can
also take double format or some non-IEEE format (currently, this means
powerpc64le).
Tested for powerpc64le.
Reviewed-by: Paul E. Murphy <murphyp@linux.ibm.com>
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Use the recently added, internal functions, __vwarnx_internal and
__vwarn_internal, to provide err.h functions that can take long double
arguments with IEEE binary128 format on platforms where long double can
also take double format or some non-IEEE format (currently, this means
powerpc64le).
Tested for powerpc64le.
Reviewed-by: Paul E. Murphy <murphyp@linux.ibm.com>
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Use the recently added, internal functions, __argp_error_internal and
__argp_failure_internal, to provide argp_error and argp_failure that can
take long double arguments with IEEE binary128 format on platforms where
long double can also take double format or some non-IEEE format
(currently, this means powerpc64le).
Tested for powerpc64le.
Reviewed-by: Paul E. Murphy <murphyp@linux.ibm.com>
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This patch removes the arch-specific atomic instruction, relying on
compiler builtins. The __sparc32_atomic_locks support is removed
and a configure check is added to check if compiler uses libatomic
to implement CAS.
It also removes the sparc specific sem_* and pthread_barrier_*
implementations. It in turn allows buidling against a LEON3/LEON4
sparcv8 target, although it will still be incompatible with generic
sparcv9.
Checked on sparcv9-linux-gnu and sparc64-linux-gnu. I also checked
with build against sparcv8-linux-gnu with -mcpu=leon3.
Tested-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
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The patch is straighforward:
- The sparc32 v8 implementations are moved as the generic ones.
- A configure test is added to check for either __sparc_v8__ or
__sparc_v9__.
- The triple names are simplified and sparc implies sparcv8.
The idea is to keep support on sparcv8 architectures that does support
CAS instructions, such as LEON3/LEON4.
Checked on a sparcv9-linux-gnu and sparc64-linux-gnu.
Tested-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
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[BZ #25226]
If the specified needle crosses a page-boundary, the s390-z15 ifunc variant of
strstr truncates the needle which results in invalid results.
This is fixed by loading the needle beyond the page boundary to v18 instead of v16.
The bug is sometimes observable in test-strstr.c in check1 and check2 as the
haystack and needle is stored on stack. Thus the needle can be on a page boundary.
check2 is now extended to test haystack / needles located on stack, at end of page
and on two pages.
This bug was introduced with commit 6f47401bd5fc71209219779a0426170a9a7395b0
("S390: Add arch13 strstr ifunc variant.") and is already released in glibc 2.30.
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The nptl: Add struct_mutex.h added a wrong initializer for
architectures that uses the generic struct_mutex.h.
Checked on sparcv9-linux-gnu (where I noted the issue with the
nptl/tst-initializers1*).
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In GCC 10, the default at -O2 is now -ftree-loop-distribute-patterns.
This optimization causes GCC to "helpfully" convert the hand-written
loop in _dl_start into a call to memset, which is not available that
early in program startup. Similar problems in other places in GLIBC
have been addressed by explicitly building with
-fno-tree-loop-distribute-patterns, but this one may have been
overlooked previously because it only affects targets where
HAVE_BUILTIN_MEMSET is not defined.
This patch fixes a bug observed on nios2-linux-gnu target that caused
all programs to segv on startup.
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Now that both pthread_mutex_t and pthread_rwlock_t static initializer
are parametrized in their own headers HPPA pthread.h is identical to
generic nptl one.
Checked on hppa-linux-gnu.
Change-Id: I236cfceb5656cfcce42c9e367a4f6803e2abd88b
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This patch adds a default pthread-offsets.h based on default
thread definitions from struct_mutex.h and struct_rwlock.h.
The idea is to simplify new ports inclusion.
Checked with a build on affected abis.
Change-Id: I7785a9581e651feb80d1413b9e03b5ac0452668a
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This patch adds a default pthreadtypes-arch.h, the idea is to simpify
new ports inclusion and an override is required only if the architecture
adds some arch-specific extensions or requirement.
The default values on the new generic header are based on current
architecture define value and they are not optimal compared to current
code requirements as below.
- On 64 bits __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_BARRIER_T is defined as 32 while is
sizeof (struct pthread_barrier) is 20 bytes.
- On 32 bits __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_ATTR_T is defined as 36 while
sizeof (struct pthread_attr) is 32.
The default values are not changed so the generic header could be
used by some architectures.
Checked with a build on affected abis.
Change-Id: Ie0cd586258a2650f715c1af0c9fe4e7063b0409a
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This patch adds a new generic __pthread_rwlock_arch_t definition meant
to be used by new ports. Its layout mimics the current usage on some
64 bits ports and it allows some ports to use the generic definition.
The arch __pthread_rwlock_arch_t definition is moved from
pthreadtypes-arch.h to another arch-specific header (struct_rwlock.h).
Also the static intialization macro for pthread_rwlock_t is set to use
an arch defined on (__PTHREAD_RWLOCK_INITIALIZER) which simplifies its
implementation.
The default pthread_rwlock_t layout differs from current ports with:
1. Internal layout is the same for 32 bits and 64 bits.
2. Internal flag is an unsigned short so it should not required
additional padding to align for word boundary (if it is the case
for the ABI).
Checked with a build on affected abis.
Change-Id: I776a6a986c23199929d28a3dcd30272db21cd1d0
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The current way of defining the common mutex definition for POSIX and
C11 on pthreadtypes-arch.h (added by commit 06be6368da16104be5) is
not really the best options for newer ports. It requires define some
misleading flags that should be always defined as 0
(__PTHREAD_COMPAT_PADDING_MID and __PTHREAD_COMPAT_PADDING_END), it
exposes options used solely for linuxthreads compat mode
(__PTHREAD_MUTEX_USE_UNION and __PTHREAD_MUTEX_NUSERS_AFTER_KIND), and
requires newer ports to explicit define them (adding more boilerplate
code).
This patch adds a new default __pthread_mutex_s definition meant to
be used by newer ports. Its layout mimics the current usage on both
32 and 64 bits ports and it allows most ports to use the generic
definition. Only ports that use some arch-specific definition (such
as hardware lock-elision or linuxthreads compat) requires specific
headers.
For 32 bit, the generic definitions mimic the other 32-bit ports
of using an union to define the fields uses on adaptive and robust
mutexes (thus not allowing both usage at same time) and by using a
single linked-list for robust mutexes. Both decisions seemed to
follow what recent ports have done and make the resulting
pthread_mutex_t/mtx_t object smaller.
Also the static intialization macro for pthread_mutex_t is set to use
a macro __PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER where the architecture can redefine
in its struct_mutex.h if it requires additional fields to be
initialized.
Checked with a build on affected abis.
Change-Id: I30a22c3e3497805fd6e52994c5925897cffcfe13
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The new rwlock implementation added by cc25c8b4c1196 (2.25) removed
support for lock-elision. This patch removes remaining the
arch-specific unused definitions.
Checked with a build against all affected ABIs.
Change-Id: I5dec8af50e3cd56d7351c52ceff4aa3771b53cd6
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This patch new build tests to check for internal fields offsets for
internal pthread_rwlock_t definition. Althoug the '__data.__flags'
field layout should be preserved due static initializators, the patch
also adds tests for the futexes that may be used in a shared memory
(although using different libc version in such scenario is not really
supported).
Checked with a build against all affected ABIs.
Change-Id: Iccc103d557de13d17e4a3f59a0cad2f4a640c148
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The offsets of pthread_mutex_t __data.__nusers, __data.__spins,
__data.elision, __data.list are not required to be constant over
the releases. Only the __data.__kind is used for static
initializers.
This patch also adds an additional size check for __data.__kind.
Checked with a build against affected ABIs.
Change-Id: I7a4e48cc91b4c4ada57e9a5d1b151fb702bfaa9f
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Replacing incorrect abbreviated weekday names "Пнд", "Вто", "Срд"...
with correct ones "Пн", "Вт", "Ср"... makes the LC_TIME sections in
those two locales almost identical. The only remaining difference
was that ab_alt_mon elements in ru_UA were lowercase while in ru_RU
they had the first letter uppercase, the latter was pointed as
a better choice by a native speaker. This commit unifies LC_TIME
between ru_RU and ru_UA.
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Check address family before expensive function call (__check_pf).
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Small code cleanup for better readability.
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This patch makes build-many-glibcs.py use Linux 5.4.
Tested with build-many-glibcs.py (compilers and glibcs builds).
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It adds the missing Implies for armv7, armv6, armv6t2 after the
commit 1673ba87fefe019c. Without the Implies a build with the
compiler targeting the aforementioned architecture does not select
the arch-specific optimization including the ifunc selectors.
I checked with a build against armv5, armv6, armv6t2, armv7, and
armv7-neon for both LE and BE. For armv6 and armv7 I also checked
that both sysdeps selection and the resulting implementation built
is the expected ones.
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Similarly to what was done for regular character scanning functions,
this patch uses the new mode mask, SCANF_LDBL_USES_FLOAT128, in the
'mode' argument of the wide characters scanning function,
__vfwscanf_internal (which is also extended to support scanning
floating-point values with IEEE binary128, by redirecting calls to
__wcstold_internal to __wcstof128_internal).
Tested for powerpc64le.
Reviewed-By: Paul E. Murphy <murphyp@linux.ibm.com>
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The 'mode' argument to __vfscanf_internal allows the selection of the
long double format for all long double arguments requested by the format
string. Currently, there are two possibilities: long double with the
same format as double or long double as something else. The 'something
else' format varies between architectures, and on powerpc64le, it means
IBM Extended Precision format.
In preparation for the third option of long double format on
powerpc64le, this patch uses the new mode mask,
SCANF_LDBL_USES_FLOAT128, which tells __vfscanf_internal to call
__strtof128_internal, instead of __strtold_internal, and save the output
into a _Float128 variable.
Tested for powerpc64le.
Reviewed-By: Paul E. Murphy <murphyp@linux.ibm.com>
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The format string can request positional parameters, instead of relying
on the order in which they appear as arguments. Since this has an
effect on how the type of each argument is determined, this patch
extends the test cases to use positional parameters with mixed double
and long double types, to verify that the IEEE long double
implementations of *printf work correctly in this scenario.
Tested for powerpc64le.
Reviewed-By: Paul E. Murphy <murphyp@linux.ibm.com>
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A single format string can take double and long double parameters at the
same time. Internally, these parameters are routed to the same
function, which correctly reads them and calls the underlying functions
responsible for the actual conversion to string. This patch adds a new
case to test this scenario.
Tested for powerpc64le.
Reviewed-By: Paul E. Murphy <murphyp@linux.ibm.com>
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Similarly to what was done for the regular character, fortified printing
functions, this patch combines the mode masks PRINTF_LDBL_USES_FLOAT128
and PRINTF_FORTIFY to provide wide character versions of fortified
printf functions. It also adds two flavors of test cases: one that
explicitly calls the fortified functions, and another that reuses the
non-fortified test, but defining _FORTIFY_SOURCE as 2. The first
guarantees that the implementations are actually being tested
(independently of what's in bits/wchar2.h), whereas the second
guarantees that the redirections calls the correct function in the IBM
and IEEE long double cases.
Tested for powerpc64le.
Reviewed-By: Paul E. Murphy <murphyp@linux.ibm.com>
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Since the introduction of internal functions with explicit flags for the
printf family of functions, the 'mode' parameter can be used to select
which format long double parameters have (with the mode flags:
PRINTF_LDBL_IS_DBL and PRINTF_LDBL_USES_FLOAT128), as well as to select
whether to check for overflows (mode flag: PRINTF_FORTIFY).
This patch combines PRINTF_LDBL_USES_FLOAT128 and PRINTF_FORTIFY to
provide the IEEE binary128 version of printf-like function for platforms
where long double can take this format, in addition to the double format
and to some non-ieee format (currently, this means powerpc64le).
There are two flavors of test cases provided with this patch: one that
explicitly calls the fortified functions, for instance __asprintf_chk,
and another that reuses the non-fortified test, but defining
_FORTIFY_SOURCE as 2. The first guarantees that the implementations are
actually being tested (in bits/stdio2.h, vprintf gets redirected to
__vfprintf_chk, which would leave __vprintf_chk untested), whereas the
second guarantees that the redirections calls the correct function in
the IBM and IEEE long double cases.
Tested for powerpc64le.
Reviewed-By: Paul E. Murphy <murphyp@linux.ibm.com>
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Similarly to what was done for regular character printing functions,
this patch uses the new mode mask, PRINTF_LDBL_USES_FLOAT128, in the
'mode' argument of the wide characters printing function,
__vfwprintf_internal (which is also extended to support printing
floating-point values with IEEE binary128, by saving floating-point
values into variables of type __float128 and adjusting the parameters to
__printf_fp and __printf_fphex as if it was a call from a wide-character
version of strfromf128 (even though such version does not exist)).
Tested for powerpc64le.
Reviewed-By: Paul E. Murphy <murphyp@linux.ibm.com>
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The 'mode' argument to __vfprintf_internal allows the selection of the
long double format for all long double arguments requested by the format
string. Currently, there are two possibilities: long double with the
same format as double or long double as something else. The 'something
else' format varies between architectures, and on powerpc64le, it means
IBM Extended Precision format.
In preparation for the third option of long double format on
powerpc64le, this patch uses the new mode mask,
PRINTF_LDBL_USES_FLOAT128, which tells __vfprintf_internal to save the
floating-point values into variables of type __float128 and adjusts the
parameters to __printf_fp and __printf_fphex as if it was a call from
strfromf128.
Many files from the stdio-common, wcsmbs, argp, misc, and libio
directories will have IEEE binary128 counterparts. Setting the correct
compiler options to these files (original and counterparts) would
produce a large amount of repetitive Makefile rules. To avoid this
repetition, this patch adds a Makefile routine that iterates over the
files adding or removing the appropriate flags.
Tested for powerpc64le.
Reviewed-By: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-By: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Reviewed-By: Paul E. Murphy <murphyp@linux.ibm.com>
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When the commit
commit 03992356e6fedc5a5e9d32df96c1a2c79ea28a8f
Author: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
Date: Sat Feb 10 11:58:35 2018 -0500
Use C99-compliant scanf under _GNU_SOURCE with modern compilers.
added the DEPRECATED_SCANF macro to select when redirections of *scanf
functions to their ISO C99 compliant versions should happen, it
accidentally missed doing it for vfwscanf, vwscanf, and vswscanf.
Tested for powerpc64le and with build-many-glibcs (i686-linux-gnu and
nios2-linux-gnu are failing with current master, and with this patch,
but I didn't see a regression).
Change-Id: I706b344a3fb50be017cdab9251d9da18a3ba8c60
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The generic pselect implementation has the very specific race condition
that motived the creation of the pselect syscall (no atomicity in
signal mask set/reset). Using it as generic implementation is
counterproductive Also currently only microblaze uses it as fallback
when used on kernel prior 3.15.
This patch moves the generic implementation to a microblaze specific
one, sets the generic internal as a ENOSYS, and cleanups the Linux
generic implementation.
The microblaze implementation mimics the previous Linux generic one,
where it either uses pselect6 directly if __ASSUME_PSELECT or a
first try pselect6 then the fallback otherwise.
Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu and microblaze-linux-gnu.
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Very recent commit 854e91bf6b4221f424ffa13b9ef50f35623b7b74 enabled
inline of issignalingf() in general (__issignalingf in include/math.h).
There is another implementation for an inline use of issignalingf
(issignalingf_inline in sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32/math_config.h)
which could instead make use of the new enablement.
Replace the use of issignalingf_inline with __issignaling. Using
issignaling (instead of __issignalingf) will allow future enhancements
to the type-generic implementation, issignaling, to be automatically
adopted.
The implementations are slightly different, and compile to slightly
different code, but I measured no significant performance difference.
The second implementation was brought to my attention by:
Suggested-by: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Reviewed-by: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
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This causes issues when using clang with -frewrite-includes to e.g.,
submit the translation unit to a distributed compiler.
In my case, I was building Firefox using sccache.
See [1] for a reduced test-case since I initially thought this was a
clang bug, and [2] for more context.
Apparently doing this is invalid C++ per [cpp.cond], which mentions [3]:
> The #ifdef and #ifndef directives, and the defined conditional
> inclusion operator, shall treat __has_include and __has_cpp_attribute
> as if they were the names of defined macros. The identifiers
> __has_include and __has_cpp_attribute shall not appear in any context
> not mentioned in this subclause.
[1]: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43982
[2]: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37990
[3]: http://eel.is/c++draft/cpp.cond#7.sentence-2
Change-Id: Id4b8ee19176a9e4624b533087ba870c418f27e60
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issignalingf is a very small function used in some areas where
better performance (and smaller code) might be helpful.
Create inline implementation for issignalingf.
Reviewed-by: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
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This will allow changes in dependency processing during non-lazy
binding, for more precise processing of NODELETE objects: During
initial relocation in dlopen, the fate of NODELETE objects is still
unclear, so objects which are depended upon by NODELETE objects
cannot immediately be marked as NODELETE.
Change-Id: Ic7b94a3f7c4719a00ca8e6018088567824da0658
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(CVE-2019-19126) [BZ #25204]
The problem was introduced in glibc 2.23, in commit
b9eb92ab05204df772eb4929eccd018637c9f3e9
("Add Prefer_MAP_32BIT_EXEC to map executable pages with MAP_32BIT").
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In some cases, it is necessary to introduce noexcept regions
where raised dynamic loader exceptions (e.g., from lazy binding)
are fatal, despite being nested in a code region with an active
exception handler. This change enhances _dl_catch_exception with
to provide such a capability. The existing function is reused,
so that it is not necessary to introduce yet another function with
a similar purpose.
Change-Id: Iec1bf642ff95a349fdde8040e9baf851ac7b8904
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The trampoline code should really be rewritten in assembler because
this is all very undefined at the C level.
Change-Id: Ided58244ca0ee48892519faac5ac222a4e02dec4
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Change-Id: Ic6ec48f75f3a0576d3121befd04531382c92afb4
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l_audit ends up as an internal array with _rtld_global, and GCC 10
warns about this.
This commit does not change the layout of _rtld_global, so it is
suitable for backporting. Future changes could allocate more of the
audit state dynamically and remove it from always-allocated data
structures, to optimize the common case of inactive auditing.
Change-Id: Ic911100730f9124d4ea977ead8e13cee64b84d45
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To improve GCC 10 compatibility, it is necessary to remove the l_audit
zero-length array from the end of struct link_map. In preparation of
that, this commit introduces an accessor function for the audit state,
so that it is possible to change the representation of the audit state
without adjusting the code that accesses it.
Tested on x86_64-linux-gnu. Built on i686-gnu.
Change-Id: Id815673c29950fc011ae5301d7cde12624f658df
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The l_audit array is indexed by audit module, not audit function.
Change-Id: I180eb3573dc1c57433750f5d8cb18271460ba5f2
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Change-Id: If5df5b05d15f0418af821a9ac8cc0fad53437b10
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libio can only deal with gconv conversions which consist of a single
step. Not using __gconv_info simplifies the data structures somewhat.
This eliminates a new GCC 10 warning about subscribing an inner
zero-length array.
Tested on x86_64-linux-gnu with mainline GCC. Built with
build-many-glibcs.py, also with mainline GCC. Due to GCC PR 92039,
there are failures left on 32-bit architectures with float128 support.
Change-Id: I8b4c489b619a53154712ff32e1b6f13bb92d4203
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Add a script for visualizing the JSON output generated by existing
glibc string microbenchmarks.
Overview:
plot_strings.py is capable of plotting benchmark results in the
following formats, which are controlled with the -p or --plot argument:
1. absolute timings (-p time): plot the timings as they are in the
input benchmark results file.
2. relative timings (-p rel): plot relative timing difference with
respect to a chosen ifunc (controlled with -b argument).
3. performance relative to max (-p max): for each varied parameter
value, plot 1/timing as the percentage of the maximum value out of
the plotted ifuncs.
4. throughput (-p thru): plot varied parameter value over timing
For all types of graphs, there is an option to explicitly specify
the subset of ifuncs to plot using the --ifuncs parameter.
For plot types 1. and 4. one can hide/expose exact benchmark figures
using the --values flag.
When plotting relative timing differences between ifuncs, the first
ifunc listed in the input JSON file is the baseline, unless the
baseline implementation is explicitly chosen with the --baseline
parameter. For the ease of reading, the script marks the statistically
insignificant range on the graphs. The default is +-5% but this
value can be controlled with the --threshold parameter.
To accommodate for the heterogeneity in benchmark results files,
one can control i.e the x-axis scale, the resolution (dpi) of the
generated figures or the key to access the varied parameter value
in the JSON file. The corresponding options are --logarithmic,
--resolution or --key. The --key parameter ensures that plot_strings.py
works with all files which pass JSON schema validation. The schema
can be chosen with the --schema parameter.
If a window manager is available, one can enable interactive
figure display using the --display flag.
Finally, one can use the --grid flag to enable grid lines in the
generated figures.
Implementation:
plot_strings.py traverses the JSON tree until a 'results' array
is found and generates a separate figure for each such array.
The figure is then saved to a file in one of the available formats
(controlled with the --extension parameter).
As the tree is traversed, the recursive function tracks the metadata
about the test being run, so that each figure has a unique and
meaningful title and filename.
While plot_strings.py works with existing benchmarks, provisions
have been made to allow adding more structure and metadata to these
benchmarks. Currently, many benchmarks produce multiple timing values
for the same value of the varied parameter (typically 'length').
Mutiple data points for the same parameter usually mean that some other
parameter was varied as well, for example, if memmove's src and dst
buffers overlap or not (see bench-memmove-walk.c and
bench-memmove-walk.out).
Unfortunately, this information is not exposed in the benchmark output
file, so plot_strings.py has to resort to computing the geometric mean
of these multiple values. In the process, useful information about the
benchmark configuration is lost. Also, averaging the timings for
different alignments can hide useful characterstics of the benchmarked
ifuncs.
Testing:
plot_strings.py has been tested on all existing string microbenchmarks
which produce results in JSON format. The script was tested on both
Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS. It runs on both python 2 and 3
(2.7.12 and 3.5.12 tested).
Useful commands:
1. Plot timings for all ifuncs in bench-strlen.out:
$ ./plot_strings.py bench-strlen.out
2. Display help:
$ ./plot_strings.py -h
3. Plot throughput for __memset_avx512_unaligned_erms and
__memset_avx512_unaligned. Save the generated figure in pdf format to
'results/'. Use logarithmic x-axis scale, show grid lines and expose
the performance numbers:
$ ./plot_strings.py bench.out -o results/ -lgv -e pdf -p thru \
-i __memset_avx512_unaligned_erms __memset_avx512_unaligned
4. Plot relative timings for all ifuncs in bench.out with __generic_memset
as baseline. Display percentage difference threshold of +-10%:
$ ./plot_strings.py bench.out -p rel -b __generic_memset -t 10
Discussion:
1. I would like to propose relaxing the benchout_strings.schema.json
to allow specifying either a 'results' array with 'timings' (as before)
or a 'variants' array. See below example:
{
"timing_type": "hp_timing",
"functions": {
"memcpy": {
"bench-variant": "default",
"ifuncs": ["generic_memcpy", "__memcpy_thunderx"],
"variants": [
{
"name": "powers of 2",
"variants": [
{
"name": "both aligned",
"results": [
{
"length": 1,
"align1": 0,
"align2": 0,
"timings": [x, y]
},
{
"length": 2,
"align1": 0,
"align2": 0,
"timings": [x, y]
},
...
{
"length": 65536,
"align1": 0,
"align2": 0,
"timings": [x, y]
}]
},
{
"name": "dst misaligned",
"results": [
{
"length": 1,
"align1": 0,
"align2": 0,
"timings": [x, y]
},
{
"length": 2,
"align1": 0,
"align2": 1,
"timings": [x, y]
},
...
'variants' array consists of objects such that each object has a 'name'
attribute to describe the configuration of a particular test in the
benchmark. This can be a description, for example, of how the parameter
was varied or what was the buffer alignment tested. The 'name' attribute
is then followed by another 'variants' array or a 'results' array.
The nesting of variants allows arbitrary grouping of benchmark timings,
while allowing description of these groups. Using recusion, it is
possible to proceduraly create titles and filenames for the figures being
generated.
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