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Re: [PATCH] x86-64: Align the stack in __tls_get_addr [BZ #21609]


On Thu, 6 Jul 2017, Alexander Monakov wrote:
> There is no need to introduce new symbols nor symbol versions. It's
> sufficient to implement amd64 __tls_get_attr in assembly, rename generic
> __tls_get_attr, and call the renamed generic implementation from the slow
> path after realigning the stack.

Actually, looking at elf/dl-tls.c, I see that __tls_get_addr doesn't need
aligned stack, and its callees update_get_addr and tls_get_addr_tail are
already marked noinline, so isn't it sufficient to additionally mark those
with __attribute__((force_align_arg_pointer)) on x86-64?

Alexander


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