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Diffstat (limited to 'nptl/sysdeps/x86_64/pthreaddef.h')
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/nptl/sysdeps/x86_64/pthreaddef.h b/nptl/sysdeps/x86_64/pthreaddef.h index 8ec135c048..9de4af2b69 100644 --- a/nptl/sysdeps/x86_64/pthreaddef.h +++ b/nptl/sysdeps/x86_64/pthreaddef.h @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -/* Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +/* Copyright (C) 2002,2003,2007,2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of the GNU C Library. Contributed by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>, 2002. @@ -27,9 +27,17 @@ /* Minimal stack size after allocating thread descriptor and guard size. */ #define MINIMAL_REST_STACK 2048 -/* Alignment requirement for TCB. Need to store post-AVX vector registers - in the TCB and we want the storage to be aligned at 32-byte. */ -#define TCB_ALIGNMENT 32 +/* Alignment requirement for TCB. + + We need to store post-AVX vector registers in the TCB and we want the + storage to be aligned to at least 32 bytes. + + Some processors such as Intel Atom pay a big penalty on every + access using a segment override if that segment's base is not + aligned to the size of a cache line. (See Intel 64 and IA-32 + Architectures Optimization Reference Manual, section 13.3.3.3, + "Segment Base".) On such machines, a cache line is 64 bytes. */ +#define TCB_ALIGNMENT 64 /* Location of current stack frame. The frame pointer is not usable. */ |