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Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch v4 08/16] QemuThread: make QemuThread as tls to
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch v4 08/16] QemuThread: make QemuThread as tls to store extra info |
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Sun, 18 Nov 2012 11:15:43 -0500 (EST) |
> > > It does support pthread_get/setspecific, but it didn't support
> > > something
> > > else so the qemu-tls.h variant that used pthread_get/setspecific
> > > didn't
> > > work either.
> > >
> > > And it doesn't support sigaltstack in threads, so it's the only
> > > platform
> > > where the gthread-based coroutines are used. Those are buggy
> > > because
> > > the coroutines tend to get random signal masks.
> >
> > I'd love to know what that something else is.
>
> I think it is constructor priorities. Probably not needed if I
> look at the code again with a fresh mind. :)
>
> But yes
... now that real pthreads are supported in OpenBSD it's a wholly
different story, and we should simply (in 1.4) stop supporting older
versions. (Sincere) congratulations to the OpenBSD devs!
Paolo