Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 14:02:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good news: KSE on ia64 is starting to work Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10308051359380.8578-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20030805175030.GA901@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
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On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:33:14PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > > > Am I right that this is currently the only way libkse can work and > > > that I have to wait until the patches that are floating around get > > > committed? > > > > I'm almost ready to commit them. Trying to figure out why > > sysarch(AMD64_SET_FSBASE, foo) doesn't work on sledge (amd64). > > Ok. I wont commit the per-KSE hacks then. > > > See the ia64 part of the above patch. Since getcontext() > > and setcontext() are not meant to be used by applications > > to switch between contexts in different threads, they > > shouldn't need to save and restore TP. But, the MD parts > > of libpthread, _thread_enter_uts() and _thread_switch(), > > do need to handle this. I _think_ I took care of this > > for ia64, but you might want to take a close look at the > > patch to make sure. > > The patch does not contain ia64 (yet), but libpthread.ia64.diffs > does indeed have the code that deals with TP. Oh shoot. Terribly sorry :-( I didn't change the link to point to the latest patch file. If you grab it again, it should be updated. > Thanks, I now know what to commit and what not. I'll be testing > the patch after committing... Thanks. -- Dan Eischen
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