File bandaid-dtv-surplus.diff of Package glibc.8003
A bandaid for bnc#919678 (DTV_SURPLUS running out in some scenarios).
This bandaid comes from Fedora
( https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-10/msg00134.html ).
The real solution
( https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-11/msg00590.html )
was a bit too late to comfortably be included in SLE11 SP4 (and SP3).
Index: glibc-2.19/sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h
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--- glibc-2.19.orig/sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h
+++ glibc-2.19/sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h
@@ -391,8 +391,18 @@ struct rtld_global
have to iterate beyond the first element in the slotinfo list. */
#define TLS_SLOTINFO_SURPLUS (62)
-/* Number of additional slots in the dtv allocated. */
-#define DTV_SURPLUS (14)
+/* Number of additional allocated dtv slots. This was initially
+ 14, but problems with python, MESA, and X11's uses of static TLS meant
+ that most distributions were very close to this limit when they loaded
+ dynamically interpreted languages that used graphics. The simplest
+ solution was to roughly double the number of slots. The actual static
+ image space usage was relatively small, for example in MESA you
+ had only two dispatch pointers for a total of 16 bytes. If we hit up
+ against this limit again we should start a campaign with the
+ distributions to coordinate the usage of static TLS. Any user of this
+ resource is effectively coordinating a global resource since this
+ surplus is allocated for each thread at startup. */
+#define DTV_SURPLUS (32)
/* Initial dtv of the main thread, not allocated with normal malloc. */
EXTERN void *_dl_initial_dtv;