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Re: [RFC][PATCH] _UC_TLSBASE for all ports
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 06:19:02PM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
>
> > No, it doesn't. You don't change the lwpid if you move to a different
> > kernel thread. As such, you are breaking the "lwpid is constant"
> > property.
>
> This is how NetBSD currently behave, unless the user takes care of
> unsetting _UC_TLSBASE before walling swapcontext(). My proposal is just
> allow that workaround on all ports, since some of them lack the
> possibiliy.
You are mixing up two unrelated items. The thread private area and the
thread ID are not the same thing. Your "fix" only affects the former,
not the latter.
Joerg
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