I wanted to note that Ulrich Drepper has proposed a way around the issue, and clearly said at the end "I'm happy to entertain a patch to this effect."

When I first read the parent comment it sounded as though Ulrich immediately shot it down, which he did not. (Note I'm not blaming the OP of the parent comment for this, I am just trying to help future readers from making the same mistake I did)

While he is not immediately agreeing with what Linus proposed, at least it is progress.