Monday Patch Queue Review update (2025-03-31)

[Carlos O'Donell]

Most recent meeting status is always here:
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/PatchworkReviewMeetings#Update

Meeting: 2025-03-31 @ 0900h EST5EDT

Video/Audio: https://bbb.linuxfoundation.org/room/adm-alk-1uu-7fu

IRC: #glibc on OFTC.

Review new patches and restart review at the top.

​ * State NEW delegate NOBODY at 519 patches.
  * Starting at 109510.
  * [1/6] malloc: Move mmap code out of __libc_free hotpath (wilco)
   * Reviewer Pool: Adhemerval
  * malloc: Improve malloc initialization (wilco)
   * Discussed that this still needs review and a decision made on direction.
  * x86: Simplify AMX XSAVEC calculation logic. (Sunil)
   * Florian will review given that he's looked at this recently.
  * aarch64: Fix _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic unwind for pac-ret (BZ 32612) (Adhemerval)
   * Yury reviewed. Marked accepted.
  * [v2] Updated pages to reference 2.41 as the current version [BZ #32826] (Collin)
   * Carlos to review and apply.
  * linux/termio: remove <termio.h> and struct termio (hpa)
   * Florian looked at the changes.
   * Carlos: I've commented that I think they should go forward. We have ~4 months of testing in Rawhide and Tunbleweed that could reveal if we need to back it out.
  * [v4] stdlib: Fix qsort memory leak if callback throws (BZ 32058) (Adhemerval)
   * Reviewer Pool: DJ
  * [v2] stdlib: Consolidate getentropy and adapt to POSIX 2024 semantics (Adhemerval)
   * Reviewer Pool: Carlos O'Donell
  * manual: Document functions adopted by POSIX.1-2024. (Collin)
   * Carlos: Adhemerval, please push this with your RB.
  * manual: tidy the longopt.c example (Adhemerval)
   * Carlos: Adhemerval, please push this with your RB.
  * malloc: Improve malloc initialization (Wilco)
   * Discussing ongoing on the list regarding this patch.
  * malloc: Improve malloc initialization (Wilco)
   * Wilco: Make sure tcache only initializes after malloc initializes.
   * Florian: I'll follow up on the mailing list.
  * Florian: Do we want to reconsider https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/cover.1727624528.git.fweimer@redhat.com/T/#m9ed3c9b488489a590305dee970e6e0bb2fc82111 for the next release?
   * Tulio asked on the mailing list.
   * Florian, We want to write a RELRO validator, but this needs the information.
   * Adhemerval: How do we update the new supported page sizes?
   * Only the narrower set of patches to provide knowledge of page sizes, but not the gap handling.
  * [v1] stdio: Add more setvbuf tests (DJ)
   * Superseded.
  * tcache: malloc improvements (Cupertino)
   * Reviewer Pool: Wilco.
  * Stopped at 108657.

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Cheers,
Carlos.