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From:   Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH glibc 1/4] glibc: Perform rseq(2) registration at
 nptl init and thread creation (v4)
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----- On Dec 4, 2018, at 2:44 PM, Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com wrote:

> * Mathieu Desnoyers:
> 
>> diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/riscv/rv64/libpthread.abilist
>> b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/riscv/rv64/libpthread.abilist
>> index c370fda73d..9da78d59d2 100644
>> --- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/riscv/rv64/libpthread.abilist
>> +++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/riscv/rv64/libpthread.abilist
>> @@ -235,3 +235,4 @@ GLIBC_2.28 tss_create F
>>  GLIBC_2.28 tss_delete F
>>  GLIBC_2.28 tss_get F
>>  GLIBC_2.28 tss_set F
>> +GLIBC_2.29 __rseq_refcount T 0x4
> 
> This part looks buggy.
> 
> It's unclear based on this patch whether you actually want to get rid of
> the __rseq_refcount symbol.

I want to keep the __rseq_refcount symbol so out-of-libc users can
register rseq if they are linked against a pre-2.29 libc.

Why does it look buggy ?

Thanks,

Mathieu


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