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Re: [PATCH] BZ 6973, 6976: Correct stack size and guard sizecomputations for new threads
On Mon, 21 May 2012 22:56:40 -0700, Paul wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar
> <siddhesh@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > 2012-05-22 ?Siddhesh Poyarekar ?<siddhesh@redhat.com>
> >
> > ? ? ? ?[BZ #6973]
> > ? ? ? ?[BZ #6976]
> > ? ? ? ?* Makefile (tests): Add new test case target.
> > ? ? ? ?* allocatestack.c (allocate_stack): Align request size
> > upwards to __static_tls_align. Allocate additional space for guard.
> > ? ? ? ?* descr.h (struct pthread): Mention that reported_guardsize
> > is unused.
> > ? ? ? ?* pthread_getattr_np.c (pthread_getattr_np): Use
> > ? ? ? ?pthread->guardsize value to return guardsize. Return
> > stacksize after reducing guardsize.
> > ? ? ? ?* tst-attr-stack.c: New test case.
>
> This is closely related to BZ #11787, which Carlos has been looking
> at.
>
Thanks for pointing me to that bz. I found a few problems with my patch
while reading through the bz and the specification, but I'll let this
drop since Carlos is already working on a comprehensive fix for this.
Maybe we should mark the bzs above as duplicate of 11787?
Regards,
Siddhesh