[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/glibc: enable lock elision on x86_64 hosts
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun Jul 19 09:23:14 UTC 2015
Dear Steven Noonan,
On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:01:09 -0700, Steven Noonan wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <steven at uplinklabs.net>
> ---
> package/glibc/glibc.mk | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/package/glibc/glibc.mk b/package/glibc/glibc.mk
> index 0a37bb3..651711a 100644
> --- a/package/glibc/glibc.mk
> +++ b/package/glibc/glibc.mk
> @@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ define GLIBC_CONFIGURE_CMDS
> --prefix=/usr \
> --enable-shared \
> $(if $(BR2_SOFT_FLOAT),--without-fp,--with-fp) \
> + $(if $(BR2_x86_64),--enable-lock-elision,) \
What happens on x86-64 processors that don't have the HW support needed
for lock elision ? Does glibc gracefully falls back at runtime to
"normal" locks ?
Thanks,
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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