[PATCH] NPTL/arc: notify kernel of the TP value

Vineet Gupta Vineet.Gupta1 at synopsys.com
Tue Jun 30 12:16:56 UTC 2015


Native gdb makes a ptrace (GET_THREAD_AREA) which needs to return the
TP. however when libc sets up TP reg (for main thread), it doesn't call
arc_settls syscall so kernel doesn't know of TP register details
(moreso because clone doesnt have SETTLS flag)

Note that kernel doesn't know about r25 being TP etc.

This commit got lost in merge of NPTL tools into arc-mainline-dev and
showed up again as STAR 9000919529 (native gdb can't debug threaded
apps)

	------->8---------------
	[ARCLinux]# gdb ./pth
	Reading symbols from ./pth...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
	(gdb) b main
	Breakpoint 1 at 0x106f2
	(gdb) r
	Starting program: /pth
	[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
	Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
	thread_get_info_callback: cannot get thread info: generic error
	(gdb) q
	------->8---------------
Debugged-by: Anton Kolesov <akolesov at synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta at synopsys.com>

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta at synopsys.com>
---
 libpthread/nptl/sysdeps/arc/tls.h | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libpthread/nptl/sysdeps/arc/tls.h b/libpthread/nptl/sysdeps/arc/tls.h
index 63dd11398522..4af415a1c30b 100644
--- a/libpthread/nptl/sysdeps/arc/tls.h
+++ b/libpthread/nptl/sysdeps/arc/tls.h
@@ -104,8 +104,11 @@ typedef struct
    operation can cause a failure 'errno' must not be touched.  */
 # define TLS_INIT_TP(tcbp, secondcall)          \
   ({                                            \
-        __builtin_set_thread_pointer(tcbp);     \
-        NULL;                                   \
+	long result_var;			\
+	__builtin_set_thread_pointer(tcbp);     \
+	result_var = INTERNAL_SYSCALL (arc_settls, err, 1, (tcbp));	\
+	INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERROR_P (result_var, err)			\
+	? "unknown error" : NULL;		\
    })
 
 /* Return the address of the dtv for the current thread.
-- 
1.9.1



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