KSE/ia64 broken

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 12:18:33PM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> 
> Are you sure there's not an ia64 kernel bug or ia64 context
> restoring bug?

There's nothing pointing in that direction yet. I keep thinking
that the case is related to having TP per thread on ia64, while
it's per KSE on i386.

> The critical region may be the malloc spinlock being held
> and the reason it blocked perhaps due to a page fault.  Is
> it possible that the blocked context is incorrectly marked,
> or that it is just not being resumed properly?

The likelylood that it's incorrectly marked is larger than
the likelyhood that it's improperly resumed.

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