Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 10:22:19 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: deischen@freebsd.org Cc: davidxu@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KSE/ia64 broken Message-ID: <20031116182219.GB60377@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10311161205380.3319-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> References: <20031115193039.GA55917@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10311161205380.3319-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
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On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 12:18:33PM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > Are you sure there's not an ia64 kernel bug or ia64 context > restoring bug? There's nothing pointing in that direction yet. I keep thinking that the case is related to having TP per thread on ia64, while it's per KSE on i386. > The critical region may be the malloc spinlock being held > and the reason it blocked perhaps due to a page fault. Is > it possible that the blocked context is incorrectly marked, > or that it is just not being resumed properly? The likelylood that it's incorrectly marked is larger than the likelyhood that it's improperly resumed. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net
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