Re: ColdFire and Thread-Local Storage

["Norbert Lange" <lange@chello.at>]

Hello,

its been some time since I looked at the TLS conventions and I only done  
this on ARM.
But I would strongly advise you to implement the function in asm, on ARM  
you arent allowed to change any register except the one you return and I  
would bet its the same on other architectures.

Norbert

Am 29.01.2014, 08:51 Uhr, schrieb Sebastian Huber  
<sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de>:

> On 2014-01-28 20:15, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Sebastian Huber
>> <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> it seems GCC uses this ColdFire TLS ABI:
>>>
>>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2007/11/msg00071.html
>>>
>>> Here we have a function
>>>
>>> void *__m68k_read_tp(void)
>>>
>>> which must return the thread pointer in register a0.
>>>
>>> I have to implement this function.  Is there a way to instruct GCC to  
>>> return
>>> the value in register a0 instead of d0 or do I have to use assembler to
>>> implement this function?
>>
>> I believe that on m68k GNU/Linux a function that returns a pointer
>> will normally return the value in a0.
>>
>> Ian
>>
>
> The function
>
> void *__m68k_read_tp(void)
> {
>    const Thread_Control *executing = _Thread_Get_executing();
>
>    return (char *) executing->Start.tls_area +
>      _TLS_Get_thread_control_block_area_size((uintptr_t) _TLS_Alignment)
>      + 0x7000;
> }
>
> translates to
>
> __m68k_read_tp:
>          move.l #_TLS_Alignment,%d0
>          moveq #8,%d1
>          move.l _Per_CPU_Information+18,%a0
>          cmp.l %d0,%d1
>          jls .L2
>          moveq #8,%d0
> .L2:
>          add.l #28672,%d0
>          add.l 194(%a0),%d0
>          rts
>
> I use now:
>
> void __m68k_read_tp(void)
> {
>    const Thread_Control *executing = _Thread_Get_executing();
>    void *tp = (char *) executing->Start.tls_area +
>      _TLS_Get_thread_control_block_area_size((uintptr_t) _TLS_Alignment)
>      + 0x7000;
>
>    __asm__ volatile (
>      "move.l %0, %%a0"
>      :
>      : "d" (tp)
>    );
> }