Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:57:20 -0600 From: "Richard Seaman, Jr." <dick@tar.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Subject: Re: Using LinuxThreads Message-ID: <19990121135720.C5495@tar.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901211102220.703-100000@s204m82.isp.whistle.com>; from Julian Elischer on Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 11:04:38AM -0800 References: <19990121123814.B5495@tar.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901211102220.703-100000@s204m82.isp.whistle.com>
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On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 11:04:38AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: > > > > And when are COMPAT_LINUX_THREADS and VM_STACK going away? > > > > I have no idea. I was hoping that at least COMPAT_LINUX_THREADS > > would go away before the branch. I don't have commit authority, > > so it isn't up to me. > > > > hmm did you send me the patches? No. You said you wanted Peter to do it. I offered to send patches upon request, but never got a request. :) > > I can certainly do it now..(given a patch set to apply) Ok. I'll send it. Do you want VM_STACK out too? > I just realised however, that if we make them go away we break > SMP right? No. I don't think the patches affect SMP one way or the other. If someone tries to run kernel threads of any kind (linuxthreads in emulation, linuxthread in FreeBSD native, any other kernel threads implementation that uses rfork with RFMEM) rfork will fail, with or without the patches (unless you apply Luoqi Chen's pmap patches). I see no reason the patches shouldn't work with SMP when rfork gets fixed, but I haven't tried it. > hmm I guess we only break it for programs that woudltry use it > which should be none if you run SMP :-) See above. -- Richard Seamman, Jr. email: dick@tar.com 5182 N. Maple Lane phone: 414-367-5450 Chenequa WI 53058 fax: 414-367-5852 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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