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2025-11-18Remove support for lock elision.Stefan Liebler
The support for lock elision was already deprecated with glibc 2.42: commit 77438db8cfa6ee66b3906230156bdae11c49a195 "Mark support for lock elision as deprecated." See also discussions: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2025-July/168492.html This patch removes the architecture specific support for lock elision for x86, powerpc and s390 by removing the elision-conf.h, elision-conf.c, elision-lock.c, elision-timed.c, elision-unlock.c, elide.h, htm.h/hle.h files. Those generic files are also removed. The architecture specific structures are adjusted and the elision fields are marked as unused. See struct_mutex.h files. Furthermore in struct_rwlock.h, the leftover __rwelision was also removed. Those were originally removed with commit 0377a7fde6dfcc078dda29a1225d7720a0931357 "nptl: Remove rwlock elision definitions" and by chance reintroduced with commit 7df8af43ad1cd8ce527444de50bee6f35eebe071 "nptl: Add struct_rwlock.h" The common code (e.g. the pthread_mutex-files) are changed back to the time before lock elision was introduced with the x86-support: - commit 1cdbe579482c07e9f4bb3baa4864da2d3e7eb837 "Add the low level infrastructure for pthreads lock elision with TSX" - commit b023e4ca99f5e81f90d87d23cd267ef2abd2388c "Add new internal mutex type flags for elision." - commit 68cc29355f3334c7ad18f648ff9a6383a0916d23 "Add minimal test suite changes for elision enabled kernels" - commit e8c659d74e011346785355eeef03b7fb6f533c61 "Add elision to pthread_mutex_{try,timed,un}lock" - commit 49186d21ef2d87986bccaf0a7c45c48c91b265f3 "Disable elision for any pthread_mutexattr_settype call" - commit 1717da59aed9612becd56aaa1249aac695af4c8a "Add a configure option to enable lock elision and disable by default" Elision is removed also from the tunables, the initialization part, the pretty-printers and the manual. Some extra handling in the testsuite is removed as well as the full tst-mutex10 testcase, which tested a race while enabling lock elision. I've also searched the code for "elision", "elide", "transaction" and e.g. cleaned some comments. I've run the testsuite on x86_64 and s390x and run the build-many-glibcs.py script. Thanks to Sachin Monga, this patch is also tested on powerpc. A NEWS entry also mentions the removal. Reviewed-by: Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com>
2025-05-27malloc: Fix malloc init orderWilco Dijkstra
__ptmalloc_init was called too early in __libc_early_init: it uses __libc_initial which is not set yet. Fix this by moving initialization to the end of __libc_early_init. Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
2025-05-12malloc: Improve malloc initializationWilco Dijkstra
Move malloc initialization to __libc_early_init. Use a hidden __ptmalloc_init for initialization and a weak call to avoid pulling in the system malloc in a static binary. All previous initialization checks can now be removed. Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
2025-01-01Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrightsPaul Eggert
2024-11-12linux: Add support for getrandom vDSOAdhemerval Zanella
Linux 6.11 has getrandom() in vDSO. It operates on a thread-local opaque state allocated with mmap using flags specified by the vDSO. Multiple states are allocated at once, as many as fit into a page, and these are held in an array of available states to be doled out to each thread upon first use, and recycled when a thread terminates. As these states run low, more are allocated. To make this procedure async-signal-safe, a simple guard is used in the LSB of the opaque state address, falling back to the syscall if there's reentrancy contention. Also, _Fork() is handled by blocking signals on opaque state allocation (so _Fork() always sees a consistent state even if it interrupts a getrandom() call) and by iterating over the thread stack cache on reclaim_stack. Each opaque state will be in the free states list (grnd_alloc.states) or allocated to a running thread. The cancellation is handled by always using GRND_NONBLOCK flags while calling the vDSO, and falling back to the cancellable syscall if the kernel returns EAGAIN (would block). Since getrandom is not defined by POSIX and cancellation is supported as an extension, the cancellation is handled as 'may occur' instead of 'shall occur' [1], meaning that if vDSO does not block (the expected behavior) getrandom will not act as a cancellation entrypoint. It avoids a pthread_testcancel call on the fast path (different than 'shall occur' functions, like sem_wait()). It is currently enabled for x86_64, which is available in Linux 6.11, and aarch64, powerpc32, powerpc64, loongarch64, and s390x, which are available in Linux 6.12. Link: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/nframe.html [1] Co-developed-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Tested-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> # x86_64 Tested-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> # x86_64, aarch64 Tested-by: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site> # x86_64, aarch64, loongarch64 Tested-by: Stefan Liebler <stli@linux.ibm.com> # s390x
2024-01-01Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrightsPaul Eggert
2023-01-06Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrightsJoseph Myers
2022-06-24misc: Optimize internal usage of __libc_single_threadedAdhemerval Zanella
By adding an internal alias to avoid the GOT indirection. On some architecture, __libc_single_thread may be accessed through copy relocations and thus it requires to update also the copies default copy. This is done by adding a new internal macro, libc_hidden_data_{proto,def}, which has an addition argument that specifies the alias name (instead of default __GI_ one). Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu and i686-linux-gnu. Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
2022-01-01Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrightsPaul Eggert
I used these shell commands: ../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright (cd ../glibc && git commit -am"[this commit message]") and then ignored the output, which consisted lines saying "FOO: warning: copyright statement not found" for each of 7061 files FOO. I then removed trailing white space from math/tgmath.h, support/tst-support-open-dev-null-range.c, and sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strlen-vec.S, to work around the following obscure pre-commit check failure diagnostics from Savannah. I don't know why I run into these diagnostics whereas others evidently do not. remote: *** 912-#endif remote: *** 913: remote: *** 914- remote: *** error: lines with trailing whitespace found ... remote: *** error: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/statx_cp.c: trailing lines
2021-04-21pthread: Introduce __pthread_early_initFlorian Weimer
This function is called from __libc_early_init to initialize the pthread subsystem. Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
2021-02-23nptl: Move elision implementations into libcFlorian Weimer
The elision interfaces are closely aligned between the targets that implement them, so declare them in the generic <lowlevellock.h> file. Empty .c stubs are provided, so that fewer makefile updates under sysdeps are needed. Also simplify initialization via __libc_early_init. The symbols __lll_clocklock_elision, __lll_lock_elision, __lll_trylock_elision, __lll_unlock_elision, __pthread_force_elision move into libc. For the time being, non-hidden references are used from libpthread to access them, but once that part of libpthread is moved into libc, hidden symbols will be used again. (Hidden references seem desirable to reduce the likelihood of transactions aborts.)
2021-01-02Update copyright dates with scripts/update-copyrightsPaul Eggert
I used these shell commands: ../glibc/scripts/update-copyrights $PWD/../gnulib/build-aux/update-copyright (cd ../glibc && git commit -am"[this commit message]") and then ignored the output, which consisted lines saying "FOO: warning: copyright statement not found" for each of 6694 files FOO. I then removed trailing white space from benchtests/bench-pthread-locks.c and iconvdata/tst-iconv-big5-hkscs-to-2ucs4.c, to work around this diagnostic from Savannah: remote: *** pre-commit check failed ... remote: *** error: lines with trailing whitespace found remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master
2020-12-16Replace __libc_multiple_libcs with __libc_initial flagFlorian Weimer
Change sbrk to fail for !__libc_initial (in the generic implementation). As a result, sbrk is (relatively) safe to use for the __libc_initial case (from the main libc). It is therefore no longer necessary to avoid using it in that case (or updating the brk cache), and the __libc_initial flag does not need to be updated as part of dlmopen or static dlopen. As before, direct brk system calls on Linux may lead to memory corruption. Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
2020-07-16Linux: Remove rseq supportFlorian Weimer
The kernel ABI is not finalized, and there are now various proposals to change the size of struct rseq, which would make the glibc ABI dependent on the version of the kernels used for building glibc. This is of course not acceptable. This reverts commit 48699da1c468543ade14777819bd1b4d652709de ("elf: Support at least 32-byte alignment in static dlopen"), commit 8f4632deb3545b2949cec5454afc3cb21a0024ea ("Linux: rseq registration tests"), commit 6e29cb3f61ff5432c78a1c84b0d9b123a350ab36 ("Linux: Use rseq in sched_getcpu if available"), and commit 0c76fc3c2b346dc5401dc055d97d4279632b0fb3 ("Linux: Perform rseq registration at C startup and thread creation"), resolving the conflicts introduced by the ARC port and the TLS static surplus changes. Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2020-07-06Add the __libc_single_threaded variableFlorian Weimer
The variable is placed in libc.so, and it can be true only in an outer libc, not libcs loaded via dlmopen or static dlopen. Since thread creation from inner namespaces does not work, pthread_create can update __libc_single_threaded directly. Using __libc_early_init and its initial flag, implementation of this variable is very straightforward. A future version may reset the flag during fork (but not in an inner namespace), or after joining all threads except one. Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
2020-07-06Linux: Perform rseq registration at C startup and thread creationMathieu Desnoyers
Register rseq TLS for each thread (including main), and unregister for each thread (excluding main). "rseq" stands for Restartable Sequences. See the rseq(2) man page proposed here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/19/647 Those are based on glibc master branch commit 3ee1e0ec5c. The rseq system call was merged into Linux 4.18. The TLS_STATIC_SURPLUS define is increased to leave additional room for dlopen'd initial-exec TLS, which keeps elf/tst-auditmany working. The increase (76 bytes) is larger than 32 bytes because it has not been increased in quite a while. The cost in terms of additional TLS storage is quite significant, but it will also obscure some initial-exec-related dlopen failures.
2020-04-29elf: Add initial flag argument to __libc_early_initFlorian Weimer
The rseq initialization should happen only for the libc in the base namespace (in the dynamic case) or the statically linked libc. The __libc_multiple_libcs flag does not quite cover this case at present, so this commit introduces a flag argument to __libc_early_init, indicating whether the libc being libc is the primary one (of the main program). Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
2020-04-24elf: Implement __libc_early_initFlorian Weimer
This function is defined in libc.so, and the dynamic loader calls right after relocation has been finished, before any ELF constructors or the preinit function is invoked. It is also used in the static build for initializing parts of the static libc. To locate __libc_early_init, a direct symbol lookup function is used, _dl_lookup_direct. It does not search the entire symbol scope and consults merely a single link map. This function could also be used to implement lookups in the vDSO (as an optimization). A per-namespace variable (libc_map) is added for locating libc.so, to avoid repeated traversals of the search scope. It is similar to GL(dl_initfirst). An alternative would have been to thread a context argument from _dl_open down to _dl_map_object_from_fd (where libc.so is identified). This could have avoided the global variable, but the change would be larger as a result. It would not have been possible to use this to replace GL(dl_initfirst) because that global variable is used to pass the function pointer past the stack switch from dl_main to the main program. Replacing that requires adding a new argument to _dl_init, which in turn needs changes to the architecture-specific libc.so startup code written in assembler. __libc_early_init should not be used to replace _dl_var_init (as it exists today on some architectures). Instead, _dl_lookup_direct should be used to look up a new variable symbol in libc.so, and that should then be initialized from the dynamic loader, immediately after the object has been loaded in _dl_map_object_from_fd (before relocation is run). This way, more IFUNC resolvers which depend on these variables will work. Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>