The header exports the following:
- Definition of struct tcb.
- Helpers to get/set the tcb for the current thread.
- TLS_TCB_SIZE (size of TCB)
- TLS_TCB_ALIGN (alignment of TCB)
- TLS_VARIANT_I or TLS_VARIANT_II
- TLS_DTV_OFFSET (bias of pointers in dtv[])
- TLS_TP_OFFSET (bias of "thread pointer" relative to TCB)
Note that TLS_TP_OFFSET does not account for if the unbiased thread
pointer points to the start of the TCB (arm and x86) or the end of the
TCB (MIPS, PowerPC, and RISC-V).
Note also that for amd64, the struct tcb does not include the unused
tcb_spare field included in the current structure in libthr. libthr
does not use this field, and the existing calls in libc and rtld that
allocate a TCB for amd64 assume it is the size of 3 Elf_Addr's (and
thus do not allocate room for tcb_spare).
A <sys/_tls_variant_i.h> header is used by architectures using
Variant I TLS which uses a common struct tcb.
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