TLS, 2015 edition

[Szabolcs Nagy]

On 31/03/15 16:55, Stan Shebs wrote:
> 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.
> 

can you give more details?

having local patches for such issues does not
sound reasonable