Re: [PATCH V3] MIPS: Add get_thread_area syscall

[Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>]

Hi Guoyun,

On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 10:17:51AM +0800, Guoyun Sun wrote:
> CRIU(https://criu.org/) tools will dump TLS(Thread Local Storage) by
> get_thread_area during checkpoint and restore TLS by set_thread_area during
> restore. without this syscall, criu restore will fail on MIPS platform
> because a variable with GCC __thread will be invalid.
> 
> The following function will be called when criu restore
> 
> static inline void restore_tls(tls_t *ptls) {
>         asm volatile(
>                      "move $4, %0                                   \n"
>                      "li $2,  "__stringify(__NR_set_thread_area)"  \n"
>                      "syscall                                       \n"
>                      :
>                      : "r"(*ptls)
>                      : "$4","$2","memory");
> 
> the *ptls can be obtained by get_thread_area on MIPS platform when criu
> checkpoint. just like this:
> 
> static inline void arch_get_tls(tls_t *ptls)
> {
> 	asm volatile(
> 		     "move $4, %0				    \n"
> 		     "li $2,  "__stringify(__NR_get_thread_area)"  \n"
> 		     "syscall					    \n"
> 		     :
> 		     : "r"(ptls)
> 		     : "$4","$2","memory");
> 
> }

Why would you need a syscall for this?

Why not retrieve the value using the rdhwr instruction just like every
other bit of code using thread-local storage does?

ie. something like:

static inline void arch_get_tls(tls_t *ptls)
{
	asm("rdhwr %0, $29" : "=r"(*ptls));
}

Thanks,
    Paul