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On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 10:55:16AM -0500, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 10:48:29AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > Eventually most or all targets will have thread-specific data > > implemented; I don't want to have to redo this for each one. > > Well, but on most arches you don't need any kernel support for TLS. > On sparc32/sparc64/IA-64/s390/s390x and others you simply have one > general register reserved for it by the ABI, on Alpha you use a PAL > call. > set_thread_area/get_thread_area is IA-32/x86-64 specific. Oh, right, I guess we won't need anything if it's just in a register :) Architecture-specific it is, then. For Alpha (and probably MIPS) we can add a ptrace equivalent of the trap to fetch the pointer. Patch looks fine to me. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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