Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:32:18 +1000 From: "Sean Winn" <sean@gothic.net.au> To: "'Kris Kennaway'" <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: 'Daniel Eischen' <deischen@freebsd.org>, freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org, freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Subject: RE: pthread_mutex_timedlock on sparc64 Message-ID: <001801c66372$a032e770$2522630a@t22> In-Reply-To: <20060418204240.GA69833@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 07:28:00PM +1000, Sean Winn wrote: >> owner-freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org wrote: >>> >>> libthr *is* the thread library on sparc64; as Daniel says, >>> libpthread is not ported to sparc64. >>> >>> Kris >> >> Not yet in 6.x >> >> 19:25 Tue 18-Apr sean@bloody [~] uname -msr >> FreeBSD 6.1-RC1 sparc64 >> 19:25 Tue 18-Apr sean@bloody [~] ls -l /usr/lib/libpthread.so >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 9 Apr 17 04:05 /usr/lib/libpthread.so -> >> libc_r.so > > Oops, I forgot about that..although so did David when he removed > libc_r from 7.0 and broke sparc :-) > > So I guess this is a libc_r missing feature. Probably the solution is > to use libthr on 6.x too (I don't know if it works well enough on > 5.x). libthr causes witness panics under load on sparc64 though. > > Kris Would threading problems be related to sparc64/73413? I've noticed it sitting idle for a long while, and the test case still core dumps. The PR it references (sparc64/72998) also is open. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=sparc64/73413
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