On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 04:17:14AM +0200, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> I was building libreoffice with profile feedback and I run into a message
>
> cannot load any more object with static TLS
>
> that took me a while to track as I did not see where static TLS is comming
> out.
> Ian pointed out to me that static variables with TLS storage also consume
> static TLS even if they are in dynamic model. This is why I disabled
> localization. Is there better way to handle this?
Fix a glibc bug? It has been a while since I looked into glibc in
any depth regarding TLS (2011-03), but I believe the l_tls_modid test
here
if (! RTLD_SINGLE_THREAD_P && imap->l_tls_modid > DTV_SURPLUS)
_dl_signal_error (0, "dlopen", NULL, N_("\
cannot load any more object with static TLS"));
is wrong. The test is saying "if we have loaded a certain number of
dynamic objects with TLS segments, refuse to dlopen any more
containing TLS if we are multi-threaded".
What it should be saying is "if we have loaded a certain number of
dynamic objects with TLS segments *after we went multi-threaded*,
refuse to open any more". In particular, any dynamic objects with TLS
segments loaded at program startup should not be counted. This is
because DTV_SURPLUS *extra* slots are allocated above those needed at
program startup. At least, that's how I think it works.
--
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
