Alu Powerbook

Suleiman Souhlal refugee at segfaulted.com
Mon Feb 9 05:40:44 PST 2004


Hi!
On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 18:11:53 +1000
Peter Grehan <grehan at freebsd.org> wrote:
>   My only guess is that the user program may have corrupted code
> and is sitting in a tight loop. I thought this may be due to
> L3 cache problems, but it also occurs on systems that don't have
> any L3 cache (e.g. ibook).

  After a long night of compiling the kernel countless times, I have
found what was wrong. The TDF_NEEDRESCHED flag kept being set to the
init thread, which, to my understanding, shouldn't happen, as it runs in
the userland. The (very simple) patch is attached. I can now get to
multi-user.

  Suleiman Souhlal
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