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

Elena Zannoni
2003-07-28T20:00:52Z

Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
> 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.
>

No, not usually. I can try though.

elena

> > > 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