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commit 4486c579cbf0d989080705f515d08cb48636ba88 disabled vdso clock_gettime on arm due to a Linux kernel bug that was not understood at the time, whereby the vdso function silently produced catastrophically wrong results on some systems. since then, the bug was tracked down to the way the arm kernel disabled use of vdso clock_gettime on kernels where the necessary timer was not available or was disabled. it simply patched out the symbols, but it only did this for the legacy time32 functions, and left the time64 function in place but non-operational. kernel commit 4405bdf3c57ec28d606bdf5325f1167505bfdcd4 (first present in 5.8) provided the fix. if this were a bug that impacted all users of the broken kernel versions, we could probably ignore it and assume it had been patched or replaced. however, it's very possible that these kernels appear in the wild in devices running time32 userspace (glibc, musl 1.1.x, or some other environment) where they appear to work fine, but where our new binaries would fail catastrophically if we used the time64 vdso function. since the kernel has not (yet?) given us a way to probe for the working time64 vdso function semantically, we work around the problem by refusing to use the time64 one unless the time32 one is also present. this will revert to not using vdso at all if the time32 one is ever removed, but at least that's safe against wrong results and is just a missed optimization.
musl libc
musl, pronounced like the word "mussel", is an MIT-licensed
implementation of the standard C library targetting the Linux syscall
API, suitable for use in a wide range of deployment environments. musl
offers efficient static and dynamic linking support, lightweight code
and low runtime overhead, strong fail-safe guarantees under correct
usage, and correctness in the sense of standards conformance and
safety. musl is built on the principle that these goals are best
achieved through simple code that is easy to understand and maintain.
The 1.1 release series for musl features coverage for all interfaces
defined in ISO C99 and POSIX 2008 base, along with a number of
non-standardized interfaces for compatibility with Linux, BSD, and
glibc functionality.
For basic installation instructions, see the included INSTALL file.
Information on full musl-targeted compiler toolchains, system
bootstrapping, and Linux distributions built on musl can be found on
the project website:
http://www.musl-libc.org/