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* Can TLS be implemented switching from MAP_SHARED to MAP_PRIVATE a page reserved for TLS variables ??
@ 2020-04-06 23:57 William Tambe
  2020-04-07  0:01 ` Godmar Back
  2020-04-07  9:11 ` Florian Weimer
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: William Tambe @ 2020-04-06 23:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: William Tambe via Libc-help

Can TLS be implemented switching from MAP_SHARED to MAP_PRIVATE a page
reserved for TLS variables ?

Switching such a page from MAP_SHARED to MAP_PRIVATE would effectively
make it local to that thread.

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* Re: Can TLS be implemented switching from MAP_SHARED to MAP_PRIVATE a page reserved for TLS variables ??
  2020-04-06 23:57 Can TLS be implemented switching from MAP_SHARED to MAP_PRIVATE a page reserved for TLS variables ?? William Tambe
@ 2020-04-07  0:01 ` Godmar Back
  2020-04-07  9:11 ` Florian Weimer
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Godmar Back @ 2020-04-07  0:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: William Tambe; +Cc: William Tambe via Libc-help

On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 7:57 PM William Tambe via Libc-help
<libc-help@sourceware.org> wrote:
>
> Can TLS be implemented switching from MAP_SHARED to MAP_PRIVATE a page
> reserved for TLS variables ?
>
> Switching such a page from MAP_SHARED to MAP_PRIVATE would effectively
> make it local to that thread.

You're confusing threads and processes.
MAP_PRIVATE means a process-private mapping, not a thread-private mapping.

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* Re: Can TLS be implemented switching from MAP_SHARED to MAP_PRIVATE a page reserved for TLS variables ??
  2020-04-06 23:57 Can TLS be implemented switching from MAP_SHARED to MAP_PRIVATE a page reserved for TLS variables ?? William Tambe
  2020-04-07  0:01 ` Godmar Back
@ 2020-04-07  9:11 ` Florian Weimer
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Florian Weimer @ 2020-04-07  9:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: William Tambe via Libc-help

* William Tambe via Libc-help:

> Can TLS be implemented switching from MAP_SHARED to MAP_PRIVATE a page
> reserved for TLS variables ?

Backing storage for some TLS variables will still be allocated using
malloc, so this has only limited effect in any case.

> Switching such a page from MAP_SHARED to MAP_PRIVATE would effectively
> make it local to that thread.

NPTL depends on the TCB be accessible across different threads, so this
is not possible.

C makes cross-thread access implementation-defined, but I expect that
quite a few programs expect it to work, so you may have to support is an
extension.

Thanks,
Florian


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