new in linux v4.3 added for aarch64, arm, i386, mips, or1k, powerpc,
x32 and x86_64.
membarrier is a system wide memory barrier, moves most of the
synchronization cost to one side, new in kernel commit
5b25b13ab08f616efd566347d809b4ece54570d1
userfaultfd is useful for qemu and is new in kernel commit
8d2afd96c20316d112e04d935d9e09150e988397
switch_endian is powerpc only for switching endianness, new in commit
529d235a0e190ded1d21ccc80a73e625ebcad09b
new in linux v4.3 commit 9dea5dc921b5f4045a18c63eb92e84dc274d17eb
direct calls instead of socketcall allow better seccomp filtering.
musl continues to use socketcalls internally on i386. (older kernels
would need a fallback mechanism if the direct calls were used.)
only use SYS_socketcall if SYSCALL_USE_SOCKETCALL is defined
internally, otherwise use direct syscalls.
this commit does not change the current behaviour, it is
preparation for adding direct syscall numbers for i386.
these were not covered by the parent-level rules with the new build
system. in the old build system, the equivalent files were often in
arch/$(ARCH)/src and likewise lacked the suppression. this could lead
to early crashing (before thread pointer init) when libc itself was
built with stack protector enabled.
now that .lo and .o files differ only by whether -fPIC is passed (and
no longer at the source level based on the SHARED macro), it's
possible to use the same object files for both static and shared libc
when the compiler would produce PIC for the static files anyway. this
happens if the user has included -fPIC in their CFLAGS or if the
compiler has been configured to produce PIE by default.
we use the .lo files for both, and still append -fPIC to the CFLAGS,
rather than using the .o files so that libc.so does not break
catastrophically if the user later removes -fPIC from CFLAGS in
config.mak or on the make command line. this also ensures that we get
full -fPIC in case -fpic, -fPIE, or some other lesser-PIC option was
passed in CFLAGS.
this eliminates the last need for the SHARED macro to control how
files in the src tree are compiled. the same code is used for both
libc.a and libc.so, with additional code for the dynamic linker (from
the new ldso tree) being added to libc.so but not libc.a. separate .o
and .lo object files still exist for the src tree, but the only
difference is that the .lo files are built as PIC.
in the future, if/when we add dlopen support for static-linked
programs, much of the code in dynlink.c may be moved back into the src
tree, but properly factored into separate source files. in that case,
the code in the ldso tree will be reduced to just the dynamic linker
entry point, self-relocation, and loading of libraries needed by the
main application.
the function name is still __-prefixed because it requires an asm
wrapper to pass the caller's address in order for RTLD_NEXT to work.
since this was the last function in dynlink.c still used for static
linking, now the whole file is conditional on SHARED being defined.
the ultimate goal of this change is to get all code used in libc.a out
of dynlink.c, so that the dynamic linker code can be moved to its own
tree and object files in the src tree can all be shared between libc.a
and libc.so.
contrary to commit 89e149d275, big
endian arm does need the instruction bytes in big endian order. rather
than trying to use a special encoding that works as arm or thumb,
simply encode the simplest/canonical undefined instructions dependent
on whether __thumb__ is defined.
the .byte directive encodes a guaranteed-undefined instruction, the
same one Linux fills the kuser helper page with when it's disabled.
the udf mnemonic and and .insn directives are not supported by old
binutils versions, and larger-than-byte integer directives would
produce the wrong output on big-endian.
IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT is a SOL_IP socket option to delay src port
allocation until connect in case src ip is set with bind(port=0).
new in linux v4.2, commit 90c337da1524863838658078ec34241f45d8394d
IPPROTO_MPLS protocol number for mpls over ip.
new in linux v4.2, commit 730fc4371333636a00fed32c587fc1e85c5367e2
TCP_CC_INFO is a new socket option to get congestion control info without
netlink (union tcp_cc_info is in linux/inet_diag.h kernel header).
linux commit 6e9250f59ef9efb932c84850cd221f22c2a03c4a
TCP_SAVE_SYN, TCP_SAVED_SYN socket options are for saving and getting the
SYN headers of passive connections in a server application.
linux commit cd8ae85299d54155702a56811b2e035e63064d3d
Add new tcpi_* fields to struct tcp_info implementing RFC4898 counters.
linux commit 2efd055c53c06b7e89c167c98069bab9afce7e59
a_ll/a_sc inline asm used 64bit register operands (%0) instead of 32bit
ones (%w0), this at least broke a_and_64 (which always cleared the top
32bit, leaking memory in malloc).
aarch64 provides ll/sc variants with acquire/release memory order,
freeing us from the need to have full barriers both before and after
the ll/sc operation. previously they were not used because the a_cas
can fail without performing a_sc, in which case half of the barrier
would be omitted. instead, define a custom version of a_cas for
aarch64 which uses a_barrier explicitly when aborting the cas
operation. aside from cas, other operations built on top of ll/sc are
not affected since they never abort but rather loop until they
succeed.
a split ll/sc version of the pointer-sized a_cas_p is also introduced
using the same technique.
patch by Szabolcs Nagy.
commit f3ddd17380, the dynamic linker
bootstrap overhaul, silently disabled the definition of __fpscr_values
in this file since libc.so's copy of __fpscr_values now comes from
crt_arch.h, the same place the public definition in the main program's
crt1.o ultimately comes from. remove this file which is no longer in
use.
previously powerpc had a_cas defined in terms of its native ll/sc
style operations, but all other atomics were defined in terms of
a_cas. instead define a_ll and a_sc so the compiler can generate
optimized versions of all the atomic ops and perform better inlining
of a_cas.
extracting the result of the sc (stwcx.) instruction is rather awkward
because it's natively stored in a condition flag, which is not
representable in inline asm. but even with this limitation the new
code still seems significantly better.
this commit mostly makes consistent things like spacing, function
ordering in atomic_arch.h, argument names, use of volatile, etc.
a_ctz_l was also removed from x86_64 since atomic.h provides it
automatically using a_ctz_64.
this commit mostly makes consistent things like spacing, function
ordering in atomic_arch.h, argument names, use of volatile, etc. the
fake 64-bit and/or atomics are also removed because the shared
atomic.h does a better job of implementing them; it avoids making two
atomic memory accesses when only one 32-bit half needs to be touched.
no major overhaul is needed or possible because x86 actually has
native versions of all the usual atomic operations, rather than using
ll/sc or needing cas loops.
this is possible with the new build system that allows src/*/$(ARCH)/*
files which do not shadow a file in the parent directory, and yields a
more logical organization. eventually it will be possible to remove
arch/*/src from the build system.
switch to ll/sc model so that new atomic.h can provide optimized
versions of all the atomic primitives without needing an ll/sc loop
written in asm for each one.
all isa levels which use ldrex/strex now use the inline ll/sc model
even if the type of barrier to use is not known until runtime (v6).
the cas model is only used for arm v5 and earlier, and it has been
optimized to make the call via inline asm with custom constraints
rather than as a C function call.
sh needs runtime-selected atomic backends since there are a number of
supported models that use non-forwards-compatible (non-smp-compatible)
atomic mechanisms. previously, the code paths for this were highly
inefficient since they involved C function calls with multiple
branches in the callee and heavy spills in the caller. the new code
performs calls the runtime-selected asm fragment from inline asm with
extremely minimal clobbers, rather than using a function call.
for the sh4a case where the atomic mechanism is known and there is no
forward-compatibility issue, the movli.l and movco.l instructions are
provided as a_ll and a_sc, allowing the new shared atomic.h to
generate efficient inline versions of all the basic atomic operations
without needing a cas loop.
rather than having each arch provide its own atomic.h, there is a new
shared atomic.h in src/internal which pulls arch-specific definitions
from arc/$(ARCH)/atomic_arch.h. the latter can be extremely minimal,
defining only a_cas or new ll/sc type primitives which the shared
atomic.h will use to construct everything else.
this commit avoids making heavy changes to the individual archs'
atomic implementations. definitions which are identical or
near-identical to what the new shared atomic.h would produce have been
removed, but otherwise the changes made are just hooking up the
arch-specific files to the new infrastructure. major changes to take
advantage of the new system will come in subsequent commits.
commit 2f853dd6b9 failed to change the
test for -include vis.h support to use $srcdir, so vis.h was always
disabled by configure for out-of-tree builds.
the lib dir is automatically created if needed by the out-of-tree
build logic, and now that all generated files are in obj and lib,
deleting them is much simpler. using "rm -rf" is also more thorough,
as it picks up object files that were left around from source files
that no longer exist or which are no longer to be used because an
arch-specific replacement file was added or removed.
as of commit af21a82ccc, .sub files are
no longer in use. removing the makefile machinery to handle them not
only cleans up and simplifies the makefile, but also significantly
reduces make's startup time.
commit 2f853dd6b9 failed to replicate
the old makefile logic that caused arch/arm/src/arm/atomics.s to be
built. since this was the only .s file under arch/*/src, rather than
trying to reproduce the old logic, I'm just moving it up a level and
adjusting the glob pattern in the makefile to catch it. eventually
arch/*/src will probably be removed in favor of moving all these files
to appropriate src/*/$(ARCH) locations.
Szabolcs Nagy
Rich Felker
Khem Raj