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+/*
+ * Abstraction layer for defining and using TLS variables
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2011 Red Hat, Inc
+ * Copyright (c) 2011 Linaro Limited
+ *
+ * Authors:
+ *  Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
+ *  Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
+ * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+ * with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+
+#ifndef QEMU_TLS_H
+#define QEMU_TLS_H
+
+/* Per-thread variables. Note that we only have implementations
+ * which are really thread-local on Linux; the dummy implementations
+ * define plain global variables.
+ *
+ * This means that for the moment use should be restricted to
+ * per-VCPU variables, which are OK because:
+ *  - the only -user mode supporting multiple VCPU threads is linux-user
+ *  - TCG system mode is single-threaded regarding VCPUs
+ *  - KVM system mode is multi-threaded but limited to Linux
+ *
+ * TODO: proper implementations via Win32 .tls sections and
+ * POSIX pthread_getspecific.
+ */
+#ifdef __linux__
+#define DECLARE_TLS(type, x) extern DEFINE_TLS(type, x)
+#define DEFINE_TLS(type, x)  __thread __typeof__(type) tls__##x
+#define get_tls(x)           tls__##x
+#else
+/* Dummy implementations which define plain global variables */
+#define DECLARE_TLS(type, x) extern DEFINE_TLS(type, x)
+#define DEFINE_TLS(type, x)  __typeof__(type) tls__##x
+#define get_tls(x)           tls__##x
+#endif
+
+#endif