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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Meissner <meissner@linux.ibm.com>,
	gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org,        dje.gcc@gmail.com
Subject: Re: PC-relative TLS support
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 19:47:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190815182407.GN31406@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190815040510.GJ1969@bubble.grove.modra.org>

Hi!

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 01:35:10PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> Supporting TLS for -mpcrel turns out to be relatively simple, in part
> due to deciding that !TARGET_TLS_MARKERS with -mpcrel is silly.  No
> assembler that I know of supporting prefix insns lacks TLS marker
> support.

Will this stay that way?  (Or do we not care, not now anyway?)

> Also, at some point powerpc gcc ought to remove
> !TARGET_TLS_MARKERS generally and simplify all the occurrences of
> IS_NOMARK_TLSGETADDR in rs6000.md rather than complicating them.

The last time this came up (a year ago) the conclusion was that we first
would have to remove AIX support.

>         * config/rs6000/predicates.md (unspec_tls): Allow const0_rtx for got
> 	element of unspec vec.
>         * config/rs6000/rs6000.c (rs6000_option_override_internal): Disable
> 	-mpcrel if -mno-tls-markers.
> 	(rs6000_legitimize_tls_address): Support PC-relative TLS.
>         * config/rs6000/rs6000.md (UNSPEC_TLSTLS_PCREL): New unspec.
> 	(tls_gd_pcrel, tls_ld_pcrel): New insns.
>         (tls_dtprel, tls_tprel): Set attr prefixed when tls_size is not 16.
>         (tls_got_tprel_pcrel, tls_tls_pcrel): New insns.

(Changelog has whitespace damage, I guess that is just from how you
mailed this?  Please fix when applying it).

The patch is fine when its prerequisites are in.  Thanks,


Segher

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-15 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-14 21:36 PowerPC 'future' patches introduction Michael Meissner
2019-08-14 21:37 ` [PATCH], Patch #1 of 10, Add instruction format enumeration Michael Meissner
2019-08-14 22:11 ` [PATCH], Patch #2 of 10, Add RTL prefixed attribute Michael Meissner
2019-08-19 19:15   ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-08-14 22:12 ` [PATCH], Patch #3 of 10, Add prefixed addressing support Michael Meissner
2019-08-16  1:59   ` Bill Schmidt
2019-08-14 22:15 ` [PATCH], Patch #4 of 10, Adjust costs based on insn sizes Michael Meissner
2019-08-14 22:23 ` [PATCH], Patch #5 of 10, Make -mpcrel default for -mcpu=future Michael Meissner
2019-08-14 23:10 ` [PATCH], Patch #6 of 10, Add 'future' support to function attributes Michael Meissner
2019-08-14 23:13 ` [PATCH], Patch #7 of 10, Add support for PCREL_OPT Michael Meissner
2019-08-14 23:16 ` [PATCH], Patch #8 of 10, Miscellaneous future tests Michael Meissner
2019-08-14 23:17 ` [PATCH], Patch #9 of 10, Add tests with large memory offsets Michael Meissner
2019-08-15  3:48 ` [PATCH], Patch #10 of 10, Add pc-relative tests Michael Meissner
2019-08-15  4:05 ` PowerPC 'future' patches introduction Segher Boessenkool
2019-08-15  8:10 ` PC-relative TLS support Alan Modra
2019-08-15 19:47   ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2019-08-16  4:09     ` Alan Modra
2019-08-19 13:39       ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-08-21 13:34         ` Alan Modra
2019-11-11  7:40           ` Alan Modra
2019-11-11 11:45             ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-11 12:10           ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-11-11 13:36             ` Alan Modra
2019-08-15 21:35 ` [PATCH], Patch #1 replacement (fix issues with future TLS patches) Michael Meissner
2019-08-16  0:25   ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-08-16  0:42   ` Bill Schmidt

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