[PATCH] Async signal safe TLS accesses

Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com
Tue Dec 3 17:41:00 GMT 2013


On Dec  2, 2013, "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:

> for now, given that Google has already done the work, and there is no
> public API discussion, I'm going to leave this discussion until
> further down the road when we go back to address having a public
> AS-Safe allocation API that users can use.

I meant the arena-based malloc implementation could be used for the
internal API, but (as I wrote in my first email in the thread) I meant
it as a suggestion for future improvement, not as an objection to the
patch (not page, as I wrote then ;-) under review.

> In that contact I think we'll need to have a discussion
> about malloc-based vs. something else.

Sounds good to me.

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