Libthr stable enough for testing
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed May 28 22:35:38 PDT 2003
In the last episode (May 29), Mike Makonnen said:
> On Wed, 28 May 2003 21:57:35 -0500 Glenn Johnson <glennpj at charter.net> wrote:
> > It seems to be working fine on a UP machine but it locks up my SMP
> > machine just trying to load a gnome session. It leaves an image on
> > the screen but the keyboard and mouse stop responding and I can not
> > ssh into the box.
>
> Please try the attached patch and let me know how it works.
>
> Index: lib/libthr/thread/thr_create.c
The real problem is in the kernel, though. A userland non-root process
should not be able to hard lock the system. One of the threads people
will probably have to get an SMP machine to be able to debug it.
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Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
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