Since the use of rdrand was introduced in src/c++11/random.cc, all
execution tests involving libstdc++.so.6 fail on Solaris 10 and 11/x86
with a sufficiently recent native assembler that supports rdrand: either
Solaris 10/x86 patch 119961-11 or Solaris 11.1 builds (haven't checked
which one). The problem is that as tags src/c++11/random.o as needing
RDRAND support:
% file random.o
random.o: ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable 80386 Version 1 [CMOV RDRAND]
which is propagated to libstdc++.so.6 and causes the runtime linker to
fail the execution if the hardware doesn't support that hardware
capability, although rdrand is executed only if the cpuid indicates the
support is present.
The usual solution so far has been to clear the hardware capability
using a linker map (as in libitm, cf. libitm/clearcap.map).
Unfortunately, this doesn't work here: as can be seen with elfdump,
RDRAND is set in a second mask (CA_SUNW_HW_2) since all bits in
CA_SUNW_HW_1 are already used:
% elfdump -H random.o
Capabilities Section: .SUNW_cap
Object Capabilities:
index tag value
[0] CA_SUNW_HW_1 0x20 [ CMOV ]
[1] CA_SUNW_HW_2 0x1 [ RDRAND ]
The old (v1) linker map syntax has no support for clearing that
bit/mask, and while the v2 map syntax does, we cannot universally assume
it's present on Solaris 10: while recent linker patches include it,
older ones don't and ld and as can be updated independently.
So I've settled for a different solution instead: Sun assemblers with
hardware capability support also have a -nH switch to suppress their
generation, thus I'm testing for that and use it if possible.
This is exactly what the following patch does.
Bootstrapped without regressions on i386-pc-solaris2.1[01] with affected
versions of Sun as and gas 2.22. Results with gas are unchanged, with
Sun as all failures are gone. x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu bootstrap is
running to make sure nothing breaks there.
Ok for mainline if that passes?
Rainer
2012-09-11 Rainer Orth <r...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de>
* acinclude.m4 (GLIBCXX_CHECK_ASSEMBLER_HWCAP): Define.
* configure.ac: Call GLIBCXX_CHECK_ASSEMBLER_HWCAP.
* fragment.am (CONFIG_CXXFLAGS): Add $(HWCAP_FLAGS).
* configure: Regenerate.
* Makefile.in: Regenerate.
* doc/Makefile.in: Regenerate.
* include/Makefile.in: Regenerate.
* libsupc++/Makefile.in: Regenerate.
* po/Makefile.in: Regenerate.
* python/Makefile.in: Regenerate.
* src/Makefile.in: Regenerate.
* src/c++11/Makefile.in: Regenerate.
* src/c++98/Makefile.in: Regenerate.
* testsuite/Makefile.in: Regenerate.
# HG changeset patch
# Parent cc6aab46be72c37bfdfccd786ed5c332a7ce4cd9
Clear hardware capabilities on libstdc++.so with Sun as
diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/acinclude.m4 b/libstdc++-v3/acinclude.m4
--- a/libstdc++-v3/acinclude.m4
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/acinclude.m4
@@ -169,6 +169,32 @@ AC_DEFUN([GLIBCXX_CHECK_COMPILER_FEATURE
dnl
+dnl Check if the assembler used supports disabling generation of hardware
+dnl capabilities. This is only supported by Sun as at the moment.
+dnl
+dnl Defines:
+dnl HWCAP_FLAGS='-Wa,-nH' if possible.
+dnl
+AC_DEFUN([GLIBCXX_CHECK_ASSEMBLER_HWCAP], [
+ test -z "$HWCAP_FLAGS" && HWCAP_FLAGS=''
+
+ ac_save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
+ CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wa,-nH"
+
+ AC_MSG_CHECKING([for as that supports -Wa,-nH])
+ AC_TRY_COMPILE([], [return 0;], [ac_hwcap_flags=yes],[ac_hwcap_flags=no])
+ if test "$ac_hwcap_flags" = "yes"; then
+ HWCAP_FLAGS="-Wa,-nH $HWCAP_FLAGS"
+ fi
+ AC_MSG_RESULT($ac_hwcap_flags)
+
+ CFLAGS="$ac_save_CFLAGS"
+
+ AC_SUBST(HWCAP_FLAGS)
+])
+
+
+dnl
dnl If GNU ld is in use, check to see if tricky linker opts can be used. If
dnl the native linker is in use, all variables will be defined to something
dnl safe (like an empty string).
diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/configure.ac b/libstdc++-v3/configure.ac
--- a/libstdc++-v3/configure.ac
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/configure.ac
@@ -333,6 +333,9 @@ case "$target" in
esac
GLIBCXX_CONDITIONAL(GLIBCXX_LDBL_COMPAT, test $ac_ldbl_compat = yes)
+# Check if assembler supports disabling hardware capability support.
+GLIBCXX_CHECK_ASSEMBLER_HWCAP
+
# Check if assembler supports rdrand opcode.
GLIBCXX_CHECK_X86_RDRAND
diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/fragment.am b/libstdc++-v3/fragment.am
--- a/libstdc++-v3/fragment.am
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/fragment.am
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ endif
# These bits are all figured out from configure. Look in acinclude.m4
# or configure.ac to see how they are set. See GLIBCXX_EXPORT_FLAGS.
CONFIG_CXXFLAGS = \
- $(SECTION_FLAGS) $(EXTRA_CXX_FLAGS) -frandom-seed=$@
+ $(SECTION_FLAGS) $(HWCAP_FLAGS) $(EXTRA_CXX_FLAGS) -frandom-seed=$@
WARN_CXXFLAGS = \
$(WARN_FLAGS) $(WERROR_FLAG) -fdiagnostics-show-location=once
--
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
