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authorRich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>2014-04-07 04:03:18 -0400
committerRich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>2014-04-07 04:03:18 -0400
commit1974bffa2db151b4a05a2387ae765ab81ac83ba8 (patch)
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parent21ada94c4b8c01589367cea300916d7db8461ae7 (diff)
downloadmusl-1974bffa2db151b4a05a2387ae765ab81ac83ba8.tar.gz
use inline atomics and thread pointer on arm models supporting them
this is perhaps not the optimal implementation; a_cas still compiles to nested loops due to the different interface contracts of the kuser helper cas function (whose contract this patch implements) and the a_cas function (whose contract mimics the x86 cmpxchg). fixing this may be possible, but it's more complicated and thus deferred until a later time. aside from improving performance and code size, this patch also provides a means of producing binaries which can run on hardened kernels where the kuser helpers have been disabled. however, at present this requires producing binaries for armv6k or later, which will not run on older cpus. a real solution to the problem of kernels that omit the kuser helpers would be runtime detection, so that universal binaries which run on all arm cpu models can also be compatible with all kernel hardening profiles. robust detection however is a much harder problem, and will be addressed at a later time.
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