[PATCH] PowerPC thread pointer bias requires powerpc/lowlevelrobustlock.sym

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 18:14 -0600, Ryan S. Arnold wrote:
> I've been sitting on this patch for way too long.  
> 
> The TID implementation in the default lowlevelrobustlock.sym is wrong
> for PowerPC.  The thread point on PowerPC is biased by -0x7000 to extend
> the size of the FAST TLS to 64KB.  This patch provides a powerpc
> implementation to take this into account.

Fabio, Jeff: That should fix the root cause of the errors on 2.6.18 and
later for which my patch corrected the kernel oops (you would still have
gotten an error from the syscall due to that glibc problem).

Ben.