Re: [9fans] why not Lvx for Plan 9?

[cinap_lenrek@gmx.de]

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Ok, here is the thing...

Here are 2 versions of linux libc tls and notls. (Current linux distries just
ship with the tls version i think, but here may be exceptions)

TLS is a libpthread thing that is heavily wired together with libc
on linux. (just do an ldd on something like ls)

TLS uses the two free segment registers %FS and %GS as a way for a thread
to access its thread local storage area. (the parent allocates some memory
and sets up an segment descriptor that points/translates to this memory
(it makes set_thread_area() syscall todo this)

to implement this syscall, i needed a way to change entries in the
global descriptor table in the kernel. here is some experimental
driver (/dev/tls) but i'm not sure if its correct. also it buys you not very mutch
to have it yet, because the new pthread library also needs a futex implementation
to be usefull. the old notls libc works without that syscall and doesnt need
any modification to the plan9 kernel.

but... i think in the near future TLS support is important and for that i
need some kernel support to change segment descriptors on a process
basis.

If i understand vx correctly, it also needs a way to change segment
descriptors and even needs to be able to change its %DS, %CS, %SS registers
to it.

cinap

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From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] why not Lvx for Plan 9?
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:36:22 -0700
Message-ID: <13426df10807100936l14a08d45n714428b086897d65@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net> wrote:
>> speaking of which, did Cinap's  fixes for the gs segment make it in so
>> we have thread local storage a la linux now?
>
>
> or did you mean in linuxemu?

yes. linuxemu needed a kernel change IIRC and I was wondering if that was in.
ron