Fix: membarrier fallback symbol conflict
* Lai Jiangshan (laijs@cn.fujitsu.com) wrote:
> Hi, Mathieu,
>
> There is a big compatible problem in URCU which should be fix in next round.
>
> LB: liburcu built on the system which has sys_membarrier().
> LU: liburcu built on the system which does NOT have sys_membarrier().
>
> LBM: liburcu-mb ....
> LUM: liburcu-mb ...
>
> AB: application(-lliburcu) built on the system which has sys_membarrier().
> AU: application(-lliburcu) built on the system which does NOT have
> sys_membarrier().
>
> ABM application(-lliburcu-mb) ...
> AUM application(-lliburcu-mb) ...
>
> AB/AU + LB/LU: 4 combinations
> ABM/AUM + LBM/LUM: 4 combinations
>
> I remember some of the 8 combinations can't works due to symbols are
> miss match. only LU+AB and LB+AU ?
>
> could you check it?
>
> How to fix it: In LU and AU, keep all the symbol name/ABI as LA and
> AB, but only the behaviors falls back to URCU_MB.
Define membarrier() as -ENOSYS when SYS_membarrier is not found in the
system headers. Check dynamically for membarrier availability to ensure
ABI compatibility between applications and librairies.
Reported-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
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