From owner-freebsd-threads@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 5 11:02:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FD6837B401 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2003 11:02:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.pcnet.com (mail.pcnet.com [204.213.232.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0C8843F93 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2003 11:02:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: from mail.pcnet.com (mail.pcnet.com [204.213.232.4]) by mail.pcnet.com (8.12.8/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h75I24nj009022; Tue, 5 Aug 2003 14:02:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 14:02:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen X-Sender: eischen@pcnet5.pcnet.com To: Marcel Moolenaar In-Reply-To: <20030805175030.GA901@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good news: KSE on ia64 is starting to work X-BeenThere: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: deischen@freebsd.org List-Id: Threading on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 18:02:05 -0000 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