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1.6 KiB
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# This is an experimental patch that should go into rawhide and
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# Fedora 21 to fix failures where python applications fail to
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# load graphics applications because of the slot usages for TLS.
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# This should eventually go upstream.
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#
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# - Carlos O'Donell
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diff -urN glibc-2.19-886-gdd763fd/sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h glibc-2.19-886-gdd763fd.mod/sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h
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--- glibc-2.19-886-gdd763fd/sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h 2014-08-21 01:00:55.000000000 -0400
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+++ glibc-2.19-886-gdd763fd.mod/sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h 2014-09-04 19:29:42.929692810 -0400
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@@ -388,8 +388,18 @@
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have to iterate beyond the first element in the slotinfo list. */
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#define TLS_SLOTINFO_SURPLUS (62)
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-/* Number of additional slots in the dtv allocated. */
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-#define DTV_SURPLUS (14)
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+/* Number of additional allocated dtv slots. This was initially
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+ 14, but problems with python, MESA, and X11's uses of static TLS meant
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+ that most distributions were very close to this limit when they loaded
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+ dynamically interpreted languages that used graphics. The simplest
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+ solution was to roughly double the number of slots. The actual static
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+ image space usage was relatively small, for example in MESA you
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+ had only two dispatch pointers for a total of 16 bytes. If we hit up
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+ against this limit again we should start a campaign with the
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+ distributions to coordinate the usage of static TLS. Any user of this
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+ resource is effectively coordinating a global resource since this
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+ surplus is allocated for each thread at startup. */
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+#define DTV_SURPLUS (32)
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/* Initial dtv of the main thread, not allocated with normal malloc. */
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EXTERN void *_dl_initial_dtv;
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