Merge 6095:6198 from bleeding_edge to experimental/gc.

src/platform-linux.cc

Index: src/platform-linux.cc
===================================================================
--- src/platform-linux.cc	(revision 6170)
+++ src/platform-linux.cc	(working copy)
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 #include <pthread.h>
 #include <semaphore.h>
 #include <signal.h>
+#include <sys/prctl.h>
 #include <sys/time.h>
 #include <sys/resource.h>
 #include <sys/syscall.h>
@@ -584,9 +585,15 @@
 
 
 Thread::Thread() : ThreadHandle(ThreadHandle::INVALID) {
+  set_name("v8:<unknown>");
 }
 
 
+Thread::Thread(const char* name) : ThreadHandle(ThreadHandle::INVALID) {
+  set_name(name);
+}
+
+
 Thread::~Thread() {
 }
 
@@ -596,6 +603,7 @@
   // This is also initialized by the first argument to pthread_create() but we
   // don't know which thread will run first (the original thread or the new
   // one) so we initialize it here too.
+  prctl(PR_SET_NAME, thread->name(), 0, 0, 0);
   thread->thread_handle_data()->thread_ = pthread_self();
   ASSERT(thread->IsValid());
   thread->Run();
@@ -603,6 +611,12 @@
 }
 
 
+void Thread::set_name(const char* name) {
+  strncpy(name_, name, sizeof(name_));
+  name_[sizeof(name_) - 1] = '\0';
+}
+
+
 void Thread::Start() {
   pthread_create(&thread_handle_data()->thread_, NULL, ThreadEntry, this);
   ASSERT(IsValid());