Hi Gabe,

These changes seem reasonable to me.

Steve

On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 [email protected] wrote:

> These patches touch up our ARM implementation and add in support for some new
> features including TLS, a page for the "kernel" to install user level helper
> functions, a few of those functions, and hooking in mmap2. With these patches,
> I can run a new hello world I compiled which will become ARM's first
> regression test.
>
> I wanted to send these out for review mainly because of the user level helper
> page/functions. I'm mostly guessing how this page (pages?) is (are) supposed 
> to
> work, and I'm even guessing at what the right name is. The name I'm using,
> comm page, came from a post about valgrind and may be totally inaccurate.
> Also, the functions I implemented are paraphrased from the Linux kernel.
> Please let me know if there are any copyright concerns. They're generally very
> short, but the one for cmpxchg is a little longer. My version is dumbed down
> because some of the needed instructions aren't supported, so that specific one
> isn't copied verbatim.
>
> Steve Hines (and anyone else), could you please review these patches and let
> me know if I screwed anything up?
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