Added compile-time define to add "initial-exec" attribute.

third_party/tcmalloc/chromium/src/thread_cache.h

 // Copyright (c) 2008, Google Inc.
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   // a thread is destroyed.
   // We also give a hint to the compiler to use the "initial exec" TLS
   // model.  This is faster than the default TLS model, at the cost that
   // you cannot dlopen this library.  (To see the difference, look at
   // the CPU use of __tls_get_addr with and without this attribute.)
   // Since we don't really use dlopen in google code -- and using dlopen
   // on a malloc replacement is asking for trouble in any case -- that's
   // a good tradeoff for us.
 #ifdef HAVE_TLS
   static __thread ThreadCache* threadlocal_heap_
-# ifdef HAVE___ATTRIBUTE__
+  // See comments in the header file about this #define. Bug here:

[gpike, 2012/04/24 20:49:29]

s/the header file/thread_cache.cc/
s/ #define//

[asharif1, 2012/04/24 21:02:34]

Good catch. This is the header file. I will switch the comments in the next
patchset.

+  // http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=124489
+#if defined(HAVE___ATTRIBUTE__) && !defined(PGO_GENERATE)
    __attribute__ ((tls_model ("initial-exec")))
 # endif
    ;
 #endif
 
   // Thread-specific key.  Initialization here is somewhat tricky
   // because some Linux startup code invokes malloc() before it
   // is in a good enough state to handle pthread_keycreate().
   // Therefore, we use TSD keys only after tsd_inited is set to true.
   // Until then, we use a slow path to get the heap object.
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 // because we may be in the thread destruction code and may have
 // already cleaned up the cache for this thread.
 inline ThreadCache* ThreadCache::GetCacheIfPresent() {
   if (!tsd_inited_) return NULL;
   return GetThreadHeap();
 }
 
 }  // namespace tcmalloc
 
 #endif  // TCMALLOC_THREAD_CACHE_H_