MINSIGSTKSZ and PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
David Xu
davidxu at freebsd.org
Fri Jan 16 17:26:18 PST 2004
There is a conflict between MINSIGSTKSZ and PTHREAD_STACK_MIN,
PTHREAD_STACK_MIN defined in pthread.h has a fixed value 1024,
MINSIGSTKSZ is variable on per-architecture, on i386, it is defined in
sys/i386/include/signal.h:
#define MINSIGSTKSZ (512 * 4)
so on i386, makecontext is failed when user specifies PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
for new thread, result is we get following message in libkse:
Fatal error 'Thread has returned from _thread_switch' at line 1099 in file
/usr/home/davidxu/src/lib/libpthread/thread/thr_kern.c (errno = 0)
This becauses context is not fully initialized in pthread_create.
Either makecontext shouldn't check stacksize or we should synchoronize
MINSIGSTKSZ and PTHREAD_STACK_MIN.
David Xu
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