Hi Martin,
Martin Willi wrote,

> Hi Waldemar,
> 
> Thanks for your answer.
> 
> > > Has anybody else seen pthread_cond_wait() issues on x86_64?
> 
> > The test failures for x86_64 are still high:
> > http://tests.embedded-test.org/uClibc-
> > ng/1.0.15/REPORT.x86_64.libc.uClibc-ng-1.0.15
> 
> I don't see some of these test failures here locally, but instead see
> failing others. But obviously there are other issues on x86_64 than the
> one I've stumbled upon.
> 
> > Can you compare with GNU libc pthread_cond_wait()? 
> > Do they use an assembler version or just C?
> 
> It seems that glibc uses the assembler variants on x86_64.
> 
> > Your testcase works with GNU libc. Do you like do find out
> > what is wrong in the assembly in our files? A diff shows
> > some differences...
> 
> The differences I could spot were mostly related to two fixes for the
> priority inversion Futex code, namely glibc commits c30e8edf
> and 0e3b5d6a. Not sure, but likely these are related to the issues we
> see.
> 
> > I would rather like to sync with GNU libc, as the whole NPTL/TLS
> > stuff is mostly from there.
> 
> That certainly makes sense. All the changes glibc has seen are not
> trivial, though, and unfortunately I'm not sure if I can find the time
> to work on a proper patch set at this time :-/.

You are right very diverted the code.
Better a working C implementation, then a fast and broken assembly
implementation.
See commit:
http://cgit.uclibc-ng.org/cgi/cgit/uclibc-ng.git/commit/?id=084e597e9f8e630e9b3fc7044d544699ad5d2886

best regards
 Waldemar
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