1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/absl/base/internal/sysinfo.cc b/absl/base/internal/sysinfo.cc
index 9e0140fadb1f..00e98b662cc6 100644
--- a/absl/base/internal/sysinfo.cc
+++ b/absl/base/internal/sysinfo.cc
@@ -284,6 +284,30 @@ pid_t GetTID() {
   return syscall(SYS_gettid);
 }
 
+#elif defined(__akaros__)
+
+pid_t GetTID() {
+  // Akaros has a concept of "vcore context", which is the state the program
+  // is forced into when we need to make a user-level scheduling decision, or
+  // run a signal handler.  This is analogous to the interrupt context that a
+  // CPU might enter if it encounters some kind of exception.
+  //
+  // There is no current thread context in vcore context, but we need to give
+  // a reasonable answer if asked for a thread ID (e.g., in a signal handler).
+  // Thread 0 always exists, so if we are in vcore context, we return that.
+  //
+  // Otherwise, we know (since we are using pthreads) that the uthread struct
+  // current_uthread is pointing to is the first element of a
+  // struct pthread_tcb, so we extract and return the thread ID from that.
+  //
+  // TODO(dcross): Akaros anticipates moving the thread ID to the uthread
+  // structure at some point. We should modify this code to remove the cast
+  // when that happens.
+  if (in_vcore_context())
+    return 0;
+  return reinterpret_cast<struct pthread_tcb *>(current_uthread)->id;
+}
+
 #else
 
 // Fallback implementation of GetTID using pthread_getspecific.