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Kernel: Support thread-local storage

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This patch adds support for TLS according to the x86 System V ABI.
Each thread gets a thread-specific memory region, and the GS segment
register always points _to a pointer_ to the thread-specific memory.

In other words, to access thread-local variables, userspace programs
start by dereferencing the pointer at [gs:0].

The Process keeps a master copy of the TLS segment that new threads
should use, and when a new thread is created, they get a copy of it.
It's basically whatever the PT_TLS program header in the ELF says.
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Andreas Kling 2019-09-07 15:50:44 +02:00
parent bcfdf9ffa7
commit ec6bceaa08
7 changed files with 92 additions and 5 deletions
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AK/ELF/ELFLoader.h
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@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ public:
bool load();
#if defined(KERNEL)
Function<void*(VirtualAddress, size_t, size_t, bool, bool, const String&)> alloc_section_hook;
Function<void*(size_t, size_t)> tls_section_hook;
Function<void*(VirtualAddress, size_t, size_t, size_t, bool r, bool w, bool x, const String&)> map_section_hook;
VirtualAddress entry() const { return m_image.entry(); }
#endif