glibc 2.21 - Machine maintainers, please test your machines.

[H.J. Lu]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 7:14 AM, Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> wrote:
> On 1/23/2015 4:32 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>
>> Dear Machine Maintainers,
>>
>> Please start testing your machines against glibc
>> master.
>>
>> Please update the glibc 2.21 release page with your
>> testing results:
>>
>> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.21
>>
>> If nobody objects I want to cut the release as soon
>> as we have results for all the machines.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Carlos.
>
>
> tilegx64 is fine (modulo the one bug compiler bug that has been outstanding
> for multiple glibc releases now).
>
> tilegx32 has a bunch of new failures, all of which manifest as bus errors:
>
> FAIL: nptl/tst-sem14
> FAIL: nptl/tst-sem3
> FAIL: nptl/tst-sem6
> FAIL: nptl/tst-signal3
> FAIL: nptl/tst-tls2
> FAIL: nptl/tst-tls3
>
> I assume these are all from the new semaphore code but have not had an
> opportunity to look more closely.  One thing that could cause this is if
> somehow we are trying to do atomic operations on 64-bit values that aren't
> aligned to an 8-byte boundary.
>

Can you verify if it is the case?


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H.J.