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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2004, 2007-2010, 2011-2012 Synopsys, Inc. (www.synopsys.com)
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * Amit Bhor, Kanika Nema: Codito Technologies 2004
+ */
+
+#include <linux/errno.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/unistd.h>
+#include <linux/ptrace.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/syscalls.h>
+#include <linux/elf.h>
+#include <linux/tick.h>
+
+SYSCALL_DEFINE1(arc_settls, void *, user_tls_data_ptr)
+{
+	task_thread_info(current)->thr_ptr = (unsigned int)user_tls_data_ptr;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/*
+ * We return the user space TLS data ptr as sys-call return code
+ * Ideally it should be copy to user.
+ * However we can cheat by the fact that some sys-calls do return
+ * absurdly high values
+ * Since the tls dat aptr is not going to be in range of 0xFFFF_xxxx
+ * it won't be considered a sys-call error
+ * and it will be loads better than copy-to-user, which is a definite
+ * D-TLB Miss
+ */
+SYSCALL_DEFINE0(arc_gettls)
+{
+	return task_thread_info(current)->thr_ptr;
+}