glibc 2.22 --- Stil frozen. Machine maintainers start testing.

[Szabolcs Nagy]

On 22/07/15 16:09, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> On 20/07/15 21:15, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> This is a reminder that master is still frozen.
>>
>> Only bug fixes and documentation patches.
>>
>> Machine maintainers should *start* testing to make sure you
>> don't run into any unforseen problems.
>>
>> I'd like to have the last bug fixes in by the end of the week.
>
> aarch64 status:

i cannot edit
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.22

here is an update on a new toolchain:

gcc version 6.0.0 20150724 (experimental), aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.25.51.20150727
Linux 3.18.5 #1 SMP PREEMPT aarch64

XPASS: conform/ISO11/complex.h/conform
XPASS: conform/ISO11/stdalign.h/conform
XPASS: conform/ISO11/stdnoreturn.h/conform
FAIL: debug/tst-backtrace5
FAIL: debug/tst-backtrace6
FAIL: nptl/tst-stack4
Summary of test results:
       3 FAIL
    2252 PASS
      88 XFAIL
       3 XPASS

> FAIL: debug/tst-backtrace5
> FAIL: debug/tst-backtrace6
> there is a fix as part of the cancel changes:
> https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-06/msg00950.html
> i can fix this independently, but i think it is ok
> to delay this until next release and do it with the
> cancellation fixes.

still applies.

> other pending issues:
>
> BZ 17918 dynamic-linker race: pthread_create can access
> GL(dl_tls_max_dtv_idx) and GL(dl_tls_generation) without
> holding the rtld lock.
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17918
> i don't know about any fix for this.

this is the cause of nptl/tst-stack4 failure, it affects all archs,
it happens about once out of 100 runs here on aarch64.

Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-tls.c: 493: _dl_allocate_tls_init: 
Assertion `listp->slotinfo[cnt].gen <= _rtld_local._dl_tls_generation' 
failed!

> BZ 18707 aarch64 --enable-profile is broken because asm
> for the mcount call clobbers registers it shouldn't.
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18707

i have a fix for this, not published yet.