[RFC][PATCH] LD_DEBUG option to measure init time

[pinskia@gmail.com]

> On Jul 30, 2015, at 9:08 PM, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 07/30/2015 11:58 PM, pinskia@gmail.com wrote:
>> Note aarch64 really should be using the virtual timer which is
>> optional part of armv8 but not an optional part of the server base.
>> It is sad that arm is blocking a glibc patch due to it being an
>> optional feature of v8 but is required for servers.
> 
> ARM doesn't block this patch at all. Such machines that don't implement
> hptiming could fall back to more expensive interfaces like gettimeofday
> (vdso) or clock_gettime?

I am saying they are blocking the patch which adds hptiming. They reverted it being an option feature. There is another thread about this already. 

Thanks,
Andrew

> 
> We really should be doing something better for AArhc64, but why not
> ask ARM to fix this via Linaro? :-)
> 
> c.