tunables overridability patch vs release
Adhemerval Zanella Netto
adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
Mon Jul 6 21:04:39 GMT 2026
On 06/07/26 17:46, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
> Re: https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/patch/xnqzll4dxu.fsf@greed.delorie.com/
>
> So I originally left this bit out intentionally because (1) I thought
> it would be hard, (2) it wasn't needed by most of the folks waiting
> for the tunables work, and (3) I didn't expect the patch set to land
> so close to a release.
>
> However, tunables is in and it's already hit the press[*], including
> the bit about overridability, because I implemented the parser side of
> this already (needed by the AT_SECURE parts). The patch turned out to
> be fairly simple but still needs a reviewed-by.
>
> Thus, I would like to consider this patch as "desirable" for this
> release. It was posted before the freeze, one could consider it a
> bugfix and/or continuation of the main tunables patches, or we could
> delay it and backport it later.
>
> [*] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-System-Tunables
>
I think this should be a release blocker because it does fix some issues.
Andreas Schwab has already approved, and I only have a small comment.
As a side-note, I am plan send some additional fixes to the system-wide
tunables that I missed on my previous reviews (I was about to re-start
it and saw that Arjun has already approved them). Some of them are
harderning, one it a performance optimization, and another is semantic
fix for the old environment variables.
Since this is a new features, so I think we should *not* release with some
missing fixes or proper defined semantic.
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