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authorAdhemerval Zanella <azanella@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2014-11-07 12:34:52 -0500
committerAdhemerval Zanella <azanella@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2015-01-12 06:32:08 -0500
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powerpc: abort transaction in syscalls
Linux kernel powerpc documentation states issuing a syscall inside a
transaction is not recommended and may lead to undefined behavior. It
also states syscalls does not abort transactoin neither they run in
transactional state.

To avoid side-effects being visible outside transactions, GLIBC with
lock elision enabled will issue a transaction abort instruction just
before all syscalls if hardware supports hardware transactions.
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diff --git a/sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym b/sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym
index f996759027..d955142aff 100644
--- a/sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym
+++ b/sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ POINTER_GUARD			(offsetof (tcbhead_t, pointer_guard) - TLS_TCB_OFFSET - sizeof (
 TAR_SAVE			(offsetof (tcbhead_t, tar_save) - TLS_TCB_OFFSET - sizeof (tcbhead_t))
 DSO_SLOT1			(offsetof (tcbhead_t, dso_slot1) - TLS_TCB_OFFSET - sizeof (tcbhead_t))
 DSO_SLOT2			(offsetof (tcbhead_t, dso_slot2) - TLS_TCB_OFFSET - sizeof (tcbhead_t))
+TM_CAPABLE			(offsetof (tcbhead_t, tm_capable) - TLS_TCB_OFFSET - sizeof (tcbhead_t))
 #ifndef __ASSUME_PRIVATE_FUTEX
 PRIVATE_FUTEX_OFFSET		thread_offsetof (header.private_futex)
 #endif