Re: [FIX] sysmips(MIPS_ATMIC_SET, ...) ret_from_sys_call vs. o32_ret_from_sys_call

[Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 02:38:15PM -0600, Joe deBlaquiere wrote:
> 
> Jun Sun wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 06:53:44PM -0600, Joe deBlaquiere wrote:
> > 
> >> The end goal of this is to make pthreads work on the Vr4181...it's 
> >> certainly an interesting task so far...
> >> 
> > 
> > 
> > We have got pthreads working on Vr4181 for a couple of months already.
> > What version of kernel are you using?  The toughest problem is not
> > MIPS_AUTOMIC_SET.  It is a kernel s0 register corruption bug, which is
> > already fixed in the current CVS tree.
> > 
> 
> which current CVS tree, the linuxvr tree?
> 

What do you think "CVS tree" is on an oss.sgi.com mailing list? :-0

> what is the s0 register corruption bug?
> 

Check back with the mailing list archive.  There was a thread about this.  
Basically, the s0 register can be corrupted during a few syscalls.  
pthread_create() uses one of the syscalls and thus fails even though the 
new thread is actually created.

Jun