Good news: KSE on ia64 is starting to work

Marcel Moolenaar marcel at xcllnt.net
Tue Aug 5 10:50:32 PDT 2003


On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:33:14PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> 
> > Am I right that this is currently the only way libkse can work and
> > that I have to wait until the patches that are floating around get
> > committed?
> 
> I'm almost ready to commit them.  Trying to figure out why
> sysarch(AMD64_SET_FSBASE, foo) doesn't work on sledge (amd64).

Ok. I wont commit the per-KSE hacks then.

> See the ia64 part of the above patch.  Since getcontext()
> and setcontext() are not meant to be used by applications
> to switch between contexts in different threads, they
> shouldn't need to save and restore TP.  But, the MD parts
> of libpthread, _thread_enter_uts() and _thread_switch(),
> do need to handle this.  I _think_ I took care of this
> for ia64, but you might want to take a close look at the
> patch to make sure.

The patch does not contain ia64 (yet), but libpthread.ia64.diffs
does indeed have the code that deals with TP.

Thanks, I now know what to commit and what not. I'll be testing
the patch after committing...

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