X-Git-Url: https://git.lttng.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.md;h=2b89ffa0af9f35469f7839568706829a20a6d3ac;hb=1136f4540f901b884c76fe011a468f2257d30a0f;hp=601703bdf6209af39c9e27e47a9d0c9d3e2d6b13;hpb=d7c76f85442125bcfef40f58b1c6fc1bd5ce4ffd;p=urcu.git diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 601703b..2b89ffa 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ supported, with the following exceptions: - Alpha, ia64 and ARM architectures depend on GCC 4.x with atomic builtins support. For ARM this was introduced with GCC 4.4: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.4/changes.html. + - Linux aarch64 depends on GCC 5.1 or better because prior versions + perform unsafe access to deallocated stack. Clang version 3.0 (based on LLVM 3.0) is supported. @@ -106,7 +108,7 @@ This source tree is based on the autotools suite from GNU to simplify portability. Here are some things you should have on your system in order to compile the git repository tree : - - GNU autotools (automake >=1.10, autoconf >=2.50, autoheader >=2.50) + - GNU autotools (automake >=1.12, autoconf >=2.69) (make sure your system wide `automake` points to a recent version!) - GNU Libtool >=2.2 (for more information, go to http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/) @@ -224,10 +226,11 @@ be overridden with `-DSIGRCU` by modifying `Makefile.build.inc`. The BP library flavor stands for "bulletproof". It is specifically designed to help tracing library to hook on applications without -requiring to modify these applications. `urcu_bp_init()`, -`urcu_bp_register_thread()` and `urcu_bp_unregister_thread()` all become -nops. The state is dealt with by the library internally at the expense -of read-side and write-side performance. +requiring to modify these applications. `urcu_bp_init()`, and +`urcu_bp_unregister_thread()` all become nops, whereas calling +`urcu_bp_register_thread()` becomes optional. The state is dealt with by +the library internally at the expense of read-side and write-side +performance. ### Initialization @@ -387,7 +390,7 @@ For always-on debugging self-checks: ./configure --enable-rcu-debug For fine grained enabling of debugging self-checks, build -urserspace-rcu with DEBUG_RCU defined and compile dependent +userspace-rcu with DEBUG_RCU defined and compile dependent applications with DEBUG_RCU defined when necessary. Warning: Enabling this feature result in a performance penalty.