On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 02:38:15PM -0600, Joe deBlaquiere wrote: > > Jun Sun wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 06:53:44PM -0600, Joe deBlaquiere wrote: > > > >> The end goal of this is to make pthreads work on the Vr4181...it's > >> certainly an interesting task so far... > >> > > > > > > We have got pthreads working on Vr4181 for a couple of months already. > > What version of kernel are you using? The toughest problem is not > > MIPS_AUTOMIC_SET. It is a kernel s0 register corruption bug, which is > > already fixed in the current CVS tree. > > > > which current CVS tree, the linuxvr tree? > What do you think "CVS tree" is on an oss.sgi.com mailing list? :-0 > what is the s0 register corruption bug? > Check back with the mailing list archive. There was a thread about this. Basically, the s0 register can be corrupted during a few syscalls. pthread_create() uses one of the syscalls and thus fails even though the new thread is actually created. Jun
