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Re: TLS, 2015 edition
- From: Stan Shebs <stanshebs at google dot com>
- To: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs dot nagy at arm dot com>
- Cc: "libc-alpha at sourceware dot org" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:55:23 -0500
- Subject: Re: TLS, 2015 edition
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On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 5:26 AM, Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 30/03/15 23:50, Stan Shebs wrote:
>> Through a series of unfortunate events (starting with an infinite loop
>> in an obscure Java test) I seem to have inherited the async-safe TLS
>> problem.
>>
>
> i don't know about this bug, but i assume this is a lazy
> binding issue
>
> in that case linking with '-z now' should solve the problem
> (..assuming glibc does the dynamic tls allocation at load
> time then and at thread creation time)
We've identified two mistaken bits in the Google-local patch so far,
and there may be more. It's just wasteful to be doing patch-on-patch
if we could have a version upstream and properly maintained instead.
Stan