From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Cc: mfouts@danger.com, gdb@sourceware.org, mchen@danger.com
Subject: Re: Why does gdb use its own thread ids internally rather than the ?tid from the underlying thread implementation?
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1204576678.19253.589.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803032019.m23KJldk019460@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl>
On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 21:19 +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > From: "Michael Snyder" <msnyder@specifix.com>
> > Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:57:08 -0800
> >
> > On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 10:38 -0800, Martin Fouts wrote:
[...]
> > > Or suggestions about how to accommodate M:N without zombie queues?
> >
> > Have you looked at the linux and solaris implementations?
> > They both have M:N thread models.
>
> Linux doesn't. And even Solaris uses a 1:1 model by default nowadays.
> And I really doubt the code for M:N ever worked properly in GDB.
Really? It was never perfect, but I always thought of M:N on
solaris as "mostly working"...
>
> I'm afraid that implementing GDB support for an M:N threading model is
> a largely unsolved problem.
>
> Given the fact that GDB doesn't even have support for kernel-level
> threads (or LWP's) on NetBSD, I'd start with getting that working.
> After that, it might be possible by implementing an additional stratum
> on top of that, that does the LWP to user-level thread ID translation,
> and adds in the threads that are not bound to an LWP.
Out of curiosity, how different are the thread models
between netbsd and freebsd? I've noticed that there
seem to be at least two different models for debugging
threads on freebsd, but I'm not up to speed on it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-03 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-03 18:42 Why does gdb use its own thread ids internally rather than the tid " Martin Fouts
2008-03-03 19:57 ` Michael Snyder
2008-03-03 20:09 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-03-03 20:20 ` Why does gdb use its own thread ids internally rather than the ?tid " Mark Kettenis
2008-03-03 20:38 ` Michael Snyder [this message]
2008-03-03 20:56 ` Mark Kettenis
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