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#
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# This is the original fix for bug 1124987 in Fedora.
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# This patch should never go upstream. We are applying it
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# in rhel-7.2 as a workaround.
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#
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# Upstream commit f8aeae347377f3dfa8cbadde057adf1827fb1d44 fixes
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# this issue correctly, but reveals other bugs, therefore for now
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# this patch is a workaround.
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#
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diff -urN glibc-2.17-c758a686/sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h glibc-2.17-c758a686/sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h
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--- glibc-2.17-c758a686/sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h	2014-08-21 01:00:55.000000000 -0400
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+++ glibc-2.17-c758a686/sysdeps/generic/ldsodefs.h	2014-09-04 19:29:42.929692810 -0400
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@@ -388,8 +388,18 @@
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    have to iterate beyond the first element in the slotinfo list.  */
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 #define TLS_SLOTINFO_SURPLUS (62)
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-/* Number of additional slots in the dtv allocated.  */
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-#define DTV_SURPLUS	(14)
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+/* Number of additional allocated dtv slots.  This was initially
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+   14, but problems with python, MESA, and X11's uses of static TLS meant
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+   that most distributions were very close to this limit when they loaded
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+   dynamically interpreted languages that used graphics. The simplest
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+   solution was to roughly double the number of slots. The actual static
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+   image space usage was relatively small, for example in MESA you
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+   had only two dispatch pointers for a total of 16 bytes.  If we hit up
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+   against this limit again we should start a campaign with the
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+   distributions to coordinate the usage of static TLS.  Any user of this
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+   resource is effectively coordinating a global resource since this
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+   surplus is allocated for each thread at startup.  */
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+#define DTV_SURPLUS	(32)
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   /* Initial dtv of the main thread, not allocated with normal malloc.  */
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   EXTERN void *_dl_initial_dtv;