[PATCH] uml: check for differences in host support

If running on a host not supporting TLS (for instance 2.4) we should report
that cleanly to the user, instead of printing not comprehensible "error 5" for
that.

Additionally, i386 and x86_64 support different ranges for
user_desc->entry_number, and we must account for that; we couldn't pass
ourselves -1 because we need to override previously existing TLS descriptors
which glibc has possibly set, so test at startup the range to use.

x86 and x86_64 existing ranges are hardcoded.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

2 files changed, 34 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/sys-i386/Makefile b/arch/um/os-Linux/sys-i386/Makefile
index 340ef26f5944..b3213613c41c 100644
--- a/arch/um/os-Linux/sys-i386/Makefile
+++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/sys-i386/Makefile
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Licensed under the GPL
 #
 
-obj-$(CONFIG_MODE_SKAS) = registers.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_MODE_SKAS) = registers.o tls.o
 
 USER_OBJS := $(obj-y)
 
diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/sys-i386/tls.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/sys-i386/tls.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ba21f0e04a2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/sys-i386/tls.c
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#include <linux/unistd.h>
+#include "sysdep/tls.h"
+#include "user_util.h"
+
+static _syscall1(int, get_thread_area, user_desc_t *, u_info);
+
+/* Checks whether host supports TLS, and sets *tls_min according to the value
+ * valid on the host.
+ * i386 host have it == 6; x86_64 host have it == 12, for i386 emulation. */
+void check_host_supports_tls(int *supports_tls, int *tls_min) {
+	/* Values for x86 and x86_64.*/
+	int val[] = {GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MIN_I386, GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MIN_X86_64};
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(val); i++) {
+		user_desc_t info;
+		info.entry_number = val[i];
+
+		if (get_thread_area(&info) == 0) {
+			*tls_min = val[i];
+			*supports_tls = 1;
+			return;
+		} else {
+			if (errno == EINVAL)
+				continue;
+			else if (errno == ENOSYS)
+				*supports_tls = 0;
+				return;
+		}
+	}
+
+	*supports_tls = 0;
+}