Re: mips RDHWR instruction in glibc

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 12:28:37AM +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:50:40 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> wrote:
> > > For example, in the code below, RDHWR is placed _before_ checking the
> > > error.  I suppose these instructions were reordered by gcc's
> > > optimization, but the optimization would have large negative effect in
> > > this case.
> > 
> > You'd have to figure out how to get GCC not to eagerly schedule the
> > rdhwr.  This might be quite hard.  I don't know much about this part of
> > the scheduler.
> 
> I really did not understand yet how errno is bound TLS.  I found some
> "rdhwr" in glibc-ports source code (tls-macros.h, nptl/tls.h).  The
> RDHWR instruction in the example code comes from one of them, no?

No.

> I also found a "rdhwr" in gcc's mips.md file ("tls_get_tp_<mode>").
> Is this the origin?  MD is a very foreign language for me...

Yes.  Compile something like this with -O2 but without -fpic:

__thread int x;
int foo() { return x; }

It should use the IE model, which will generate a rdhwr.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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