MDEV-27936 hardware lock elision on ppc64{,le} failing to compile
There is only a very small range of gcc compiler versions that allow the built_{htm} functions to be defined without -mhtm being specified as a global C{,XX}FLAGS. Because the design is centered around enable HTM only in the functional blocks that use it, this breaks on the inclusion of the htmxlintrin.h header that includes this. As a partial mitigation, extented to GNU/clang compilers, transaction functions gain the attribute "hot". In general the use of htm is around the optimistic transaction ability of the function. The key part of using the hot attribute is to place these functions together so that a maximization of icache, tlb and OS paging can ensure that these can be ready to execute by any thread/cpu with the minimum amount of overhead. POWER is particularly affected here because the xbegin/xend functions are not inline. srw_lock.cc requires the -mhtm cflag, both in the storage engine and the unit tests.
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