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[PATCH 1/2] aarch64: Remove HWCAP_CPUID from HWCAP_IMPORTANT


This partially reverts

commit f82e9672ad89ea1ef40bbe1af71478e255e87c5e
Author:     Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>

    aarch64: Allow overriding HWCAP_CPUID feature check using HWCAP_MASK

The idea was to make it possible to disable cpuid based ifunc resolution
in glibc by changing the hwcap mask which the user could already control.

However the hwcap mask has an orthogonal role: it specifies additional
library search paths for the dynamic linker.  So "cpuid" got added to
the search paths when it was set in the default mask (HWCAP_IMPORTANT),
which is not useful behaviour, the hwcap masking should not be reused
in the cpu features code.

Meanwhile there is a tunable to set the cpu explicitly so it is possible
to disable the cpuid based dispatch without using a hwcap mask:

  GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.tune.cpu=generic

2018-06-28  Szabolcs Nagy  <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/cpu-features.c (init_cpu_features):
	Use dl_hwcap without masking.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/dl-procinfo.h (HWCAP_IMPORTANT):
	Remove HWCAP_CPUID.
---
 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/cpu-features.c | 5 +----
 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/dl-procinfo.h  | 5 ++---
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/cpu-features.c b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/cpu-features.c
index 203f839408..39eba0186f 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/cpu-features.c
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/cpu-features.c
@@ -53,9 +53,6 @@ get_midr_from_mcpu (const char *mcpu)
 static inline void
 init_cpu_features (struct cpu_features *cpu_features)
 {
-  uint64_t hwcap_mask = GET_HWCAP_MASK();
-  uint64_t hwcap = GLRO (dl_hwcap) & hwcap_mask;
-
   register uint64_t midr = UINT64_MAX;
 
 #if HAVE_TUNABLES
@@ -69,7 +66,7 @@ init_cpu_features (struct cpu_features *cpu_features)
      allows it.  */
   if (midr == UINT64_MAX)
     {
-      if (hwcap & HWCAP_CPUID)
+      if (GLRO (dl_hwcap) & HWCAP_CPUID)
 	asm volatile ("mrs %0, midr_el1" : "=r"(midr));
       else
 	midr = 0;
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/dl-procinfo.h b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/dl-procinfo.h
index 6887713149..c0dcce15a2 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/dl-procinfo.h
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/dl-procinfo.h
@@ -27,9 +27,8 @@
 /* We cannot provide a general printing function.  */
 #define _dl_procinfo(type, word) -1
 
-/* HWCAP_CPUID should be available by default to influence IFUNC as well as
-   library search.  */
-#define HWCAP_IMPORTANT HWCAP_CPUID
+/* No additional library search paths.  */
+#define HWCAP_IMPORTANT 0
 
 static inline const char *
 __attribute__ ((unused))

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