[PATCH 0/2] aarch64: non lazy tlsdesc
Szabolcs Nagy
szabolcs.nagy@arm.com
Fri Oct 6 14:22:00 GMT 2017
lazy initialization of tlsdesc GOT entries is problematic on weak
memory models, the data race was fixed by adding a synchronization
barrier in the tlsdesc functions which run at every tls access:
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-06/msg00496.html
this obviously has significant performance impact, so the real fix
is to remove lazy initialization, which is not a useful feature,
and drop all the complicated runtime code for it.
such a change would be useful to do generically for all tlsdesc
targets (even where no barriers are needed for lazy initialization),
but i did not see a clean way to special case tlsdesc relocs in
the generic elf/do-rel.h code, so this is for aarch64 only (and
i plan to submit a separate patch for arm too).
Szabolcs Nagy (2):
aarch64: Disable lazy symbol binding of TLSDESC
aarch64: Remove barriers from TLS descriptor functions
elf/tlsdeschtab.h | 2 +
sysdeps/aarch64/dl-machine.h | 23 +++--
sysdeps/aarch64/dl-tlsdesc.S | 203 -------------------------------------------
sysdeps/aarch64/dl-tlsdesc.h | 9 --
sysdeps/aarch64/tlsdesc.c | 127 +--------------------------
5 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 347 deletions(-)
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2.11.0
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