Re: Bug#100657: sysdeps/powerpc/memset.S optimizations fail on power3 CPUs
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 12:46:52PM +1000, anton@samba.org wrote:
>
> Hi Ben,
>
> > So you verified that after removing that file, and recompiling all
> > worked well? Did you also run the testsuite?
>
> Paulus found this bug a long time ago when porting to power3. At the moment
> we binary edit libc and insert some strategic nops :)
>
> > Did this just occur, or has it always been that way? I ask, because I
> > see no changes to that since 2.2.0 release of glibc.
>
> It has always been a problem, memset(,0,) should take into consideration the
> cacheline size but does not.
>
> > If this is the only difference between powerpc and power3, then the
> > only choice I have is to remove this file for powerpc as a generic
> > solution (I cannot create two sets of libs for ppc and power3).
>
> Ben Herrenschmidt has a fix to export the cacheline size from the kernel
> using aux entries. Glibc may already have support for this.
Anything new on this?
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