From ea9b0ecbf0e7b6e8281047624efbe1b2cbb6d487 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Siddhesh Poyarekar Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 10:00:35 +0530 Subject: tunables: Add LD_HWCAP_MASK to tunables Add LD_HWCAP_MASK to tunables in preparation of it being removed from rtld.c. This allows us to read LD_HWCAP_MASK much earlier so that it can influence IFUNC resolution in aarch64. This patch does not actually do anything other than read the LD_HWCAP_MASK variable and add the tunables way to set the LD_HWCAP_MASK, i.e. via the glibc.tune.hwcap_mask tunable. In a follow-up patch, the _dl_hwcap_mask will be replaced with glibc.tune.hwcap_mask to complete the transition. * 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. --- ChangeLog | 4 ++++ elf/dl-tunables.list | 7 +++++++ manual/tunables.texi | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ scripts/gen-tunables.awk | 1 + 4 files changed, 35 insertions(+) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index b85c6182ff..7a42c78932 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ 2017-06-07 Siddhesh Poyarekar + * 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 \n" # Now, the enum names print "\ntypedef enum" -- cgit v1.2.3