Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/30] exec: do not use qemu/tls.h

[Andreas Färber]

Am 01.07.2013 23:34, schrieb Peter Maydell:
> On 1 July 2013 21:52, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Il 01/07/2013 18:26, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
>>> Since the two largest cases are both "cpu_single_env must be TLS"
>>> (ie (a) system emulation built with KVM support and (b) linux-user),
>>> the set of targets which can be non-TLS is really really small,
>>> and I think (1) makes much more sense.
>>
>> Not many linux-user targets support threads (including not i386).
> 
> i386 guest is a comparatively rare case for linux-user (because
> most people have an i386 box they can run them on). Also I'm
> hoping to get most of the linux-user guests up to the point where
> we can just have CONFIG_NPTL be true for all of them -- I have
> several patches on-list which are trying to head in that direction.

Alex had posted a patch which implements NPTL for i386, tested with
WINE, I believe.

Andreas

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