Updated patch.
Since I'm sending this via gmail I do not expect the patch to be
copy-paste:able so I attached it. The patch is also viewable at:
https://github.com/bluecmd/or1k-linux/commit/5407ab8ce13f2c3f85e733c5d6b5cca5fb35f728.patch

>From 5407ab8ce13f2c3f85e733c5d6b5cca5fb35f728 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Svensson <b...@cmd.nu>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 15:48:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] openrisc: Add thread-local storage (TLS) support

Historically OpenRISC GCC has reserved r10 which we now use to hold
the thread pointer for thread-local storage (TLS).

Signed-off-by: Christian Svensson <b...@cmd.nu>
---
 arch/openrisc/kernel/process.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/openrisc/kernel/process.c b/arch/openrisc/kernel/process.c
index 386af25..6386097 100644
--- a/arch/openrisc/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/openrisc/kernel/process.c
@@ -173,6 +173,20 @@ copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long
usp,

  if (usp)
  userregs->sp = usp;
+
+ /*
+ * For CLONE_SETTLS set "tp" (r10) to the TLS pointer passed to
+ * sys_clone.
+ *
+ * The kernel entry is:
+ * int clone (long flags, void *child_stack, int *parent_tid,
+ * int *child_tid, struct void *tls)
+ *
+ * This makes the source r7.
+ */
+ if (clone_flags & CLONE_SETTLS)
+ userregs->gpr[10] = userregs->gpr[7];
+
  userregs->gpr[11] = 0; /* Result from fork() */

  kregs->gpr[20] = 0; /* Userspace thread */
-- 
1.9.3

Attachment: or1k-tls.patch
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