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tst-tlsopt-powerpc fail
On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 09:15:29AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 01:40:11PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > The new binutils 2.29 also appears to break glibc's tst-tlsopt-ppc test.
> >
> > Which fails with:
> > tls_index not optimized, binutils too old?
> >
> > I don't know if this is a test invariant being broken by the new binutils
> > in which case the test needs updating.
> >
> > Tulio, Are you seeing this?
>
> That is a different issue, exposed by binutils commit 676ee2b5f
>
> * elf64-ppc.c (ppc64_elf_relocate_section): Don't optimize
> __tls_index GOT entries when using __tls_get_addr_opt stub.
> * elf32-ppc.c (ppc_elf_relocate_section): Likewise.
>
> Before that, optimized __tls_index entries were generated by ld,
> wrongly so for a shared library. Now, the __tls_index entry needs to
> be set up by a call to __tls_get_addr_opt. I think it is exposing a
> problem with CHECK_STATIC_TLS / TRY_STATIC_TLS in glibc but I have not
> properly debugged it yet.
OK, so now I have looked at it properly. Ignore my comment about
__tls_get_addr_opt needing to set up the __tls_index entry. That was
just plain wrong. I'd forgotten how things are supposed to work.
The __tls_index entry is set up by ld.so processing DTPMOD64 and
DTPREL64 dynamic relocs, but in the case of tst-tslopt-powerpc we
don't have any such relocs.. It's really just a testsuite issue.
tst-tlsopt-powerpc.c was bogus from the start, and probably only
worked because ld emitted dynamic relocs unnecessarily.
Since tst-tlsopt-powerpc is supposed to test glibc dynamic relocation
processing, the body of the test ought to be put in a shared library
(*). I cobbled together such a test, and TRY_STATIC_TLS works fine.
So, not a powerpc64 glibc bug.
*) Or at the very least, the thread variable put in a shared library,
but the whole thing shared is probably better.
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM