gscope + private_futex for alpha

[Richard Henderson]

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 07:25:53PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > It seems like much of this same code could be shared with all
> > of the targets, particularly those that define TLS_DTV_AT_TP.
> 
> Jakub has some patches which I haven't yet looked at.

Yeah, Jakub puts the flag in a ppc specific place.  I thought it
used the same scheme as ia64 and alpha though, and it would seem
the common header would be ideal.

> I don't think this is what I want to do.  The reason is obvious from the
> rest of your changes.  Your pthread_once cannot work since the wake call
> doesn't use the private flag the same way.

Ah, I didn't realize this was a requirement.  I've not yet
managed to boot a new kernel with this support present.


r~