Monday Patch Queue Review update (2025-09-01)

Adhemerval Zanella Netto adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
Mon Sep 1 13:44:36 GMT 2025


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

Meeting: 2025-09-01 @ 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 535 patches.
 * Starting at 119262.
 * offtime: optimized calculation of year from unix
  * Paul Eggert is tracking this.
 * aarch64: clear ZA state of SME in clone and clone3
  * Delegated to azanella
 * [RFC,v1,1/1] string: Add streq(), memeq(), wcseq(), wmemeq()
  * Failed CI and need more discussion
 * elf: Allow RPATH/RUNPATH for static-pie (BZ 33326)
  * Assiged to fweimer
 * [v5] malloc: Mark pages with MADV_DONTNEED to shrink and grow rather than mremap()
  * Florian raise a couple of potential issues: 
    1. commit charge might not be changed (overcommit and container issues), 
    2. madvise may split VMA and process might reach maximum number of VMA (unallocated VMAs in gaps)
  * Florian will comment further on potential issues
 * [v2] riscv: Sync hwprobe definitions with Linux kernel
  * RISCV maintainer will handle it
 * x86: Use more __sync builtins in atomic-machine.h
 *  azanella will comment
 * malloc: Use _int_free_chunk in tcache_thread_shutdown
  * asigned to arjun
 * [v8] malloc: add free_sized and free_aligned_sized from C23
  * failed CI

 * Florian
  * TLS allocation session on GNU Cauldron
 * Arjun
  * openat2 patch - should not mark as const
 * Claudiu
  * Nothing
 * Wilco
  * Nothing
 * Yury
  * clone3


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