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Joseph Myers d0f5b3f851 Increase minimum Linux kernel version to 2.6.32.
This patch increases the minimum Linux kernel version for glibc to
2.6.32, as discussed in the thread starting at
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-01/msg00511.html>.

This patch just does the minimal change to arch_minimum_kernel
settings (and LIBC_LINUX_VERSION, which determines the minimum kernel
headers version, as it doesn't make sense for that to be older than
the minimum kernel that can be used at runtime).  Followups would be
expected to do, roughly and not necessarily precisely in this order:

* Remove __LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION checks in kernel-features.h files
  where those checks are always true / always false for kernels 2.6.32
  and above.

* Otherwise simplify/improve conditionals in those files (for example,
  where defining once in the main file then undefining in
  architecture-specific files makes things clearer than having lots of
  separate definitions of the same macro), possibly fixing in the
  process cases where a macro should optimally have been defined for a
  given architecture but wasn't.  (In the review in preparation for
  this version increase I checked what the right conditions should be
  for all macros in the main kernel-features.h whose definitions there
  would have been affected by the increase - but I only fixed that
  subset of the issues found where --enable-kernel=2.6.32 would have
  caused a kernel feature to be wrongly assumed to be present, not any
  cases where a feature is not assumed but could be assumed.)

* Remove conditionals on __ASSUME_* where they can now be taken to be
  always-true, and the definitions when the macros are only used in
  Linux-specific files.

* Split more architectures out of the main kernel-features.h (like
  ex-ports architectures), once various of the architecture
  conditionals there have been eliminated so the new
  architecture-specific files are no larger than actually necessary.

Tested x86_64.

2014-03-27  Joseph Myers  <joseph@codesourcery.com>

	[BZ #9894]
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure.ac (LIBC_LINUX_VERSION):
	Change to 2.6.32.
	(arch_minimum_kernel): Change all 2.6.16 settings to 2.6.32.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure: Regenerated.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/microblaze/configure.ac: Remove file.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/microblaze/configure: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tile/configure.ac: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tile/configure: Likewise.
	* README: Update reference to required Linux kernel version.
	* manual/install.texi (Linux): Update reference to required Linux
	kernel headers version.
	* INSTALL: Regenerated.
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argp Fix __STRICT_ANSI__ -Wundef warnings 2014-03-17 16:05:23 +00:00
assert Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
benchtests benchtests: Link against objects in build directory 2014-04-15 14:33:06 +05:30
bits Define _STRING_ARCH_unaligned unconditionally 2014-04-09 15:05:36 -05:00
catgets Count miscellaneous files built on host for testing as tests. 2014-03-07 03:31:41 +00:00
conf
conform conformtest: clean up POSIX expectations for stdlib.h, string.h. 2014-04-30 15:35:18 +00:00
crypt Define _STRING_ARCH_unaligned unconditionally 2014-04-09 15:05:36 -05:00
csu Support _r_debug for static binaries. 2014-04-14 15:45:40 -04:00
ctype Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
debug tst-longjmp_chk2: add comments/sanity check 2014-03-13 17:05:29 -04:00
dirent Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
dlfcn Fix fallout from Joseph's untested Makeconfig change. 2014-02-28 13:00:27 -08:00
elf 2014-04-11 Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com> 2014-04-11 11:25:53 -07:00
gmon Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
gnulib Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
grp Enumerate tests with special rules in tests-special variable. 2014-03-06 22:35:33 +00:00
gshadow Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
hesiod Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
hurd Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
iconv 2014-04-29 Steve Ellcey <sellcey@mips.com> 2014-04-29 10:19:30 -07:00
iconvdata Make tests consistently use *.out output files. 2014-03-07 03:29:23 +00:00
include Compile with -Wundef. 2014-03-14 11:32:51 -07:00
inet Return NULL for wildcard values in getnetgrent from nscd (BZ #16759) 2014-03-27 19:49:51 +05:30
intl Make tests consistently use *.out output files. 2014-03-07 03:29:23 +00:00
io Enumerate tests with special rules in tests-special variable. 2014-03-06 22:35:33 +00:00
libidn Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
libio Setup LOCPATH for tst-ftell-active-handler and tst-ftell-partial-wide in libio 2014-03-25 12:43:30 +01:00
locale Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
localedata Count miscellaneous files built on host for testing as tests. 2014-03-07 03:31:41 +00:00
login Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
mach Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
malloc malloc: Fix MALLOC_DEBUG -Wundef warning 2014-04-11 09:54:18 +01:00
manual Increase minimum Linux kernel version to 2.6.32. 2014-04-30 15:41:03 +00:00
math Add fenv test support for targets which don't have FP traps. 2014-04-17 09:39:27 +01:00
misc misc/sys/xattr.h: guard against linux uapi header inclusion 2014-03-18 14:27:56 +01:00
nis Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
nptl Fix lll_unlock twice in pthread_cond_broadcast 2014-04-30 15:46:19 +05:30
nptl_db Enumerate tests with special rules in tests-special variable. 2014-03-06 22:35:33 +00:00
nscd Initialize all of datahead structure in nscd (BZ #16791) 2014-04-30 12:00:39 +05:30
nss Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
po Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
ports Final update to ports ChangeLog. 2014-04-29 13:34:13 -04:00
posix Use += before-compile instead of a :=. 2014-03-24 16:59:01 +01:00
pwd Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
resolv Do not fail if one of the two responses to AF_UNSPEC fails (BZ #14308) 2014-04-30 11:48:43 +05:30
resource Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
rt Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
scripts Kludge fix for Versions.def regression 2014-03-25 15:00:34 -07:00
setjmp Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
shadow Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
signal Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
socket Fix recvmmsg comment. 2014-04-28 18:16:07 +02:00
soft-fp Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
stdio-common Revert "Fix _IO_JUMPS_OFFSET -Wundef warnings" 2014-03-17 20:37:42 +00:00
stdlib [AArch64] Use GCC builtins to count leading/tailing zeros. 2014-04-22 17:26:59 +01:00
streams Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
string string: Cosmetic cleanup of string functions 2014-04-07 09:44:02 +01:00
sunrpc Fix fallout from Joseph's untested Makeconfig change. 2014-02-28 13:00:27 -08:00
sysdeps Increase minimum Linux kernel version to 2.6.32. 2014-04-30 15:41:03 +00:00
sysvipc Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
termios Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
time Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
timezone Count miscellaneous files built on host for testing as tests. 2014-03-07 03:31:41 +00:00
wcsmbs Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
wctype Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
.gitattributes exempt timezone files from the no-bad-whitespace policy 2009-06-15 18:15:54 +02:00
.gitignore ignore gdb related files 2013-12-27 16:30:50 -05:00
abi-tags
aclocal.m4 rename configure.in to configure.ac 2013-10-30 17:32:08 +10:00
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ChangeLog.17 Revert "Sun agreed to a change of the license for the RPC code to a BSD-like license." 2010-06-27 19:34:03 -07:00
config.h.in Save/restore bound registers in _dl_runtime_resolve 2014-04-09 15:38:09 -07:00
config.make.in PowerPC: define _CALL_ELF if compiler does not 2014-04-06 16:48:08 -05:00
configure nscd: Make SELinux checks dynamic. 2014-04-14 04:10:39 -04:00
configure.ac nscd: Make SELinux checks dynamic. 2014-04-14 04:10:39 -04:00
CONFORMANCE Move __STDC_* predefined macros from features.h to stdc-predef.h. 2012-02-22 12:53:04 +00:00
COPYING Update to latest versions of GPL-2.0 and LGPL-2.1 2013-09-09 12:52:48 +10:00
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extra-lib.mk Remove --disable-versioning. 2013-09-04 15:25:42 +00:00
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INSTALL Increase minimum Linux kernel version to 2.6.32. 2014-04-30 15:41:03 +00:00
libc-abis A few more archs have IFUNC support. 2010-03-17 02:43:12 -07:00
LICENSES Expand LICENSES file. 2012-12-05 21:56:15 +00:00
Makeconfig PowerPC: define _CALL_ELF if compiler does not 2014-04-06 16:48:08 -05:00
Makefile Do not terminate default test runs on test failure. 2014-03-14 21:02:40 +00:00
Makefile.in Add target bench-clean 2013-04-16 14:07:21 +05:30
Makerules Exit with error status on check-abi failure. 2014-03-18 00:05:28 +00:00
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README Increase minimum Linux kernel version to 2.6.32. 2014-04-30 15:41:03 +00:00
Rules Generate overall summary of test results. 2014-03-07 03:25:57 +00:00
shlib-versions PowerPC: Change powerpc64le start ABI to 2.17. 2014-02-04 09:49:08 -02:00
test-skeleton.c tests: unify fortification handler logic 2014-02-08 06:58:43 -05:00
version.h Open development for 2.20 2014-02-08 08:10:29 +10:00
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