On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:42:31AM -1000, Richard Henderson wrote: > The assignment to regs->r20 kills the original tls_val input > to the clone syscall, which means that clone can no longer be > restarted with the original inputs. > > We could, perhaps, retain this result for true fork, but OSF/1 > compatibility is no longer important. Note that glibc has never > used the r20 result value, instead always testing r0 vs 0 to > determine the child/parent status. > > This failure can be seen in the glibc nptl/tst-eintr* tests. > > Reported-by: Michael Cree <mcree@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <rth@xxxxxxxxxxx> The glibc nptl/tst-eintr3 test now works successfully on the SMP system with the patched kernel. In addition builds of openjdk-6 or openjdk-7 use to always fail because javac would randomly lock up at some point. A test build of openjdk-6 has just built successfully to completion with the patched kernel. I am not able to test whether OSF/1 compatibility is adversely affected. Tested-by: Michael Cree <mcree@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cheers Michael. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-alpha" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
