Re: FYI: Increase in schedlock.exp failures in LinuxThreads on an RH kernel

Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-07-28T19:49:49Z

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 12:48:17PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > I noticed recently, after switching kernels (I'm temporarily running a
> > Debian system with a Red Hat kernel - don't ask)
>
> We won't ask. But, as you might imagine, we do run the gdb test suite on
> our kernels, and we haven't seen this. So you indeed must have hit upon a
> lucky combination of hardware and software between that RH kernel and your
> Debian userland that happens to bite.

Have you run a testsuite using LinuxThreads, but the NPTL-aware kernel?
That should be enough to trigger it, I think. It won't show up in
NPTL, because the SIGINT will be load balanced and only delivered to
one of the threads.

> > Ingo/Roland - might want to export ShdPnd in the RH kernels...
>
> We probably will. I always used that patch when debugging the kernel
> signals code in the past.

Thanks.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer