On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 05:22:48AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > Wait... It looks like it really was saving them. Of course, this is
Bah, of course. Blind me. > IOW, in 2.5.63 and earlier, we tried to save and restore TLS state > across signals, but we did it wrong and would corrupt it for any > program that used arch_prctl. At that time, programs could switch > userspace threads using signals and their TLS pointers would switch. > In 2.5.64 and later, we broke set_thread_area users, fixed arch_prctl That is probably non-issue as 2.5 was the devel branch anyway in the old days. I'm not sure what the statement on breaking ABI was though then... -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/