Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] arm eabi TLS

[Felipe Contreras]

On Dec 13, 2007 3:15 AM, Thayne Harbaugh <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 01:21 +0000, Paul Brook wrote:
> > > - It would be good to limit the changes in the CPU emulation code to
> > > handle the TLS. For example, on MIPS, the TLS register must not be
> > > stored in the CPU state. Same for ARM.
> >
> > I disagree. The TLS register is part of the CPU state. On many machines
> > (including ARMv6 CPUs) it's an actual CPU register. I'm fairly sure the same
> > is true for recent MIPS revisions.
>
> I agree with Paul.  Some archs actually use a CPU register and require
> the kernel to help manage TLS.  Other archs can manage TLS completely in
> user space.  It's been a while since I've investigated all the details
> for each arch but I'll go review it.

How is this going?

The patch works pretty well for me.

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Felipe Contreras