-GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2010-10-11
+GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2010-10-13
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* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3268, 7066, 10851, 11611, 11640, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904,
- 11968, 11979, 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108
+ 11968, 11979, 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108,
+ 12113
* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
+2010-10-13 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
+
+ [BZ #12113]
+ * sysdeps/x86_64/pthreaddef.h (TCB_ALIGNMENT): Changed to 32.
+ * sysdeps/x86_64/tls.h (TLS_TCB_ALIGN): Defined with alignment
+ of "struct pthread".
+
2010-09-21 Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com>
* sysdeps/pthread/pthread.h (pthread_cleanup_push)
/* Minimal stack size after allocating thread descriptor and guard size. */
#define MINIMAL_REST_STACK 2048
-/* Alignment requirement for TCB. */
-#define TCB_ALIGNMENT 16
+/* Alignment requirement for TCB. Need to store post-AVX vector registers
+ in the TCB and we want the storage to be aligned at 32-byte. */
+#define TCB_ALIGNMENT 32
/* Location of current stack frame. The frame pointer is not usable. */
# define TLS_TCB_SIZE sizeof (struct pthread)
/* Alignment requirements for the TCB. */
-//# define TLS_TCB_ALIGN __alignof__ (struct pthread)
-// Normally the above would be correct But we have to store post-AVX
-// vector registers in the TCB and we want the storage to be aligned.
-// unfortunately there isn't yet a type for these values and hence no
-// 32-byte alignment requirement. Make this explicit, for now.
-# define TLS_TCB_ALIGN 32
+# define TLS_TCB_ALIGN __alignof__ (struct pthread)
/* The TCB can have any size and the memory following the address the
thread pointer points to is unspecified. Allocate the TCB there. */