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previously, dynamic loading of new libraries with thread-local storage
allocated the storage needed for all existing threads at load-time,
precluding late failure that can't be handled, but left installation
in existing threads to take place lazily on first access. this imposed
an additional memory access and branch on every dynamic tls access,
and imposed a requirement, which was not actually met, that the
dynamic tlsdesc asm functions preserve all call-clobbered registers
before calling C code to to install new dynamic tls on first access.
the x86[_64] versions of this code wrongly omitted saving and
restoring of fpu/vector registers, assuming the compiler would not
generate anything using them in the called C code. the arm and aarch64
versions saved known existing registers, but failed to be future-proof
against expansion of the register file.
now that we track live threads in a list, it's possible to install the
new dynamic tls for each thread at dlopen time. for the most part,
synchronization is not needed, because if a thread has not
synchronized with completion of the dlopen, there is no way it can
meaningfully request access to a slot past the end of the old dtv,
which remains valid for accessing slots which already existed.
however, it is necessary to ensure that, if a thread sees its new dtv
pointer, it sees correct pointers in each of the slots that existed
prior to the dlopen. my understanding is that, on most real-world
coherency architectures including all the ones we presently support, a
built-in consume order guarantees this; however, don't rely on that.
instead, the SYS_membarrier syscall is used to ensure that all threads
see the stores to the slots of their new dtv prior to the installation
of the new dtv. if it is not supported, the same is implemented in
userspace via signals, using the same mechanism as __synccall.
the __tls_get_addr function, variants, and dynamic tlsdesc asm
functions are all updated to remove the fallback paths for claiming
new dynamic tls, and are now all branch-free.
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when invoking the assembler, arm gcc does not always pass the right
flags to enable use of vfp instruction mnemonics. for C code it
produces, it emits the .fpu directive, but this does not help when
building asm source files, which tlsdesc needs to be. to fix, use an
explicit directive here.
commit 0beb9dfbecad38af9759b1e83eeb007e28b70abb introduced this
regression. it has not appeared in any release.
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the indirect function call is a significant portion of the code path
for the dynamic case, and most users are probably building for ISA
levels where it can be omitted.
we could drop at least one register save/restore (lr) with this
change, and possibly another (ip) with some clever shuffling, but it's
not clear whether there's a way to do it that's not more expensive, or
whether avoiding the save/restore would have any practical effect, so
in the interest of avoiding complexity it's omitted for now.
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