[PATCH v6 5/9] nptl: Remove g_refs from condition variables
Malte Skarupke
malteskarupke@fastmail.fm
Sat Dec 7 21:17:10 GMT 2024
Am Do, 5. Dez 2024, um 03:30, schrieb Florian Weimer:
> This looks like an unnecessary change to the on-disk layout. Shouldn't
> we keep the field as __g_refs_unused for now?
>
> Thanks,
> Florian
In a previous version I had tried to keep the sizes the same, but then got this comment which told me that I shouldn't bother because this struct doesn't actually determine the size:
https://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25847#c64
Quotes:
> The size of the public condvar structure is always maintained by the top-level union (which takes into consideration the old linuxthreads implementation size):
...
> We don't even need an __unused here.
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