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Re: [PATCH] PowerPC thread pointer bias requires powerpc/lowlevelrobustlock.sym


On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 06:54 +0100, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 18:14 -0600, Ryan S. Arnold wrote:
> >> I've been sitting on this patch for way too long.  
> >>
> >> The TID implementation in the default lowlevelrobustlock.sym is wrong
> >> for PowerPC.  The thread point on PowerPC is biased by -0x7000 to extend
> >> the size of the FAST TLS to 64KB.  This patch provides a powerpc
> >> implementation to take this into account.
> > 
> > Fabio, Jeff: That should fix the root cause of the errors on 2.6.18 and
> > later for which my patch corrected the kernel oops (you would still have
> > gotten an error from the syscall due to that glibc problem).
> > 
> > Ben.
> > 
> 
> Perfect. I will apply in the next upload.

Ryan, I might have done something wrong with my rebuild of the glibc-2.5
(it might not have taken into account the new file, I really don't
understand glibc build system), but I'm still getting the alignment
error...

I'm very busy with a lot of other things, so it's not easy for me do
those tests especially considering how uncomfortable I am workin with
glibc :) I'll try a fresh build from clean sources tomorrow and will see
what's going on.

Ben.



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