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diff --git a/src/corelib/thread/qthread.h b/src/corelib/thread/qthread.h
index 2072e22340..635dd94522 100644
--- a/src/corelib/thread/qthread.h
+++ b/src/corelib/thread/qthread.h
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ private:
#if QT_CONFIG(cxx11_future)
static QThread *createThreadImpl(std::future<void> &&future);
#endif
+ static Qt::HANDLE currentThreadIdImpl() noexcept Q_DECL_PURE_FUNCTION;
friend class QCoreApplication;
friend class QThreadData;
@@ -236,6 +237,38 @@ QThread *QThread::create(Function &&f)
#endif // QT_CONFIG(cxx11_future)
+/*
+ On architectures and platforms we know, interpret the thread control
+ block (TCB) as a unique identifier for a thread within a process. Otherwise,
+ fall back to a slower but safe implementation.
+
+ As per the documentation of currentThreadId, we return an opaque handle
+ as a thread identifier, and application code is not supposed to use that
+ value for anything. In Qt we use the handle to check if threads are identical,
+ for which the TCB is sufficient.
+
+ So we use the fastest possible way, rathern than spend time on returning
+ some pseudo-interoperable value.
+*/
+inline Qt::HANDLE QThread::currentThreadId() noexcept
+{
+ Qt::HANDLE tid; // typedef to void*
+ Q_STATIC_ASSERT(sizeof(tid) == sizeof(void*));
+ // See https://akkadia.org/drepper/tls.pdf for x86 ABI
+#if defined(Q_PROCESSOR_X86_32) && defined(Q_OS_LINUX) // x86 32-bit always uses GS
+ __asm__("movl %%gs:0, %0" : "=r" (tid) : : );
+#elif defined(Q_PROCESSOR_X86_64) && defined(Q_OS_DARWIN64)
+ // 64bit macOS uses GS, see https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/blob/master/libsyscall/os/tsd.h
+ __asm__("movq %%gs:0, %0" : "=r" (tid) : : );
+#elif defined(Q_PROCESSOR_X86_64) && (defined(Q_OS_LINUX) || defined(Q_OS_FREEBSD))
+ // x86_64 Linux, BSD uses FS
+ __asm__("movq %%fs:0, %0" : "=r" (tid) : : );
+#else
+ tid = currentThreadIdImpl();
+#endif
+ return tid;
+}
+
QT_END_NAMESPACE
#endif // QTHREAD_H