Good news: KSE on ia64 is starting to work

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 04:43:00PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > In struct ia64_tp we define tp_tls as an array of char. If we
> > define it as an array of long double we automaticly have 16-byte
> > alignment of the static TLS, struct ia64_tp, struct tcb and
> > struct kcb. Allocating the TCB will then automaticly ensure that
> > the static TLS is properly aligned. I'm currently testing with
> > the following (re)definition of struct ia64_tp:
> > 
> > struct ia64_tp {
> >         struct tdv              *tp_tdv;        /* dynamic TLS */
> >         struct tcb              *tp_self;
> >         long double             tp_tls[0];      /* static TLS */
> > };
> 
> Sure; that was merely a placeholder so one (you) could replace
> it with whatever is needed.  I assume this (static TLS) will
> have some predetermined size...

It's a runtime constant yes. We'll know the size of the static TLS
when we initialize libkse/libpthread and TLS support has been added.
I expect that kcb_faketcb doesn't need any TLS, because it's not
used for running user code, just an internal "doohicky", right?

BTW: Feel free to commit your patch at your earliest convenience
(with or without the change described above). I see a slight
regression after applying the patch, but much rather see it
committed than having to work with a large patch...

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