KSE/ia64 broken

[Daniel Eischen]

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 12:18:33PM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > 
> > Are you sure there's not an ia64 kernel bug or ia64 context
> > restoring bug?
> 
> There's nothing pointing in that direction yet. I keep thinking
> that the case is related to having TP per thread on ia64, while
> it's per KSE on i386.

If you noop the spinlock/spinunlock, the problem still
occurs.

> > The critical region may be the malloc spinlock being held
> > and the reason it blocked perhaps due to a page fault.  Is
> > it possible that the blocked context is incorrectly marked,
> > or that it is just not being resumed properly?
> 
> The likelylood that it's incorrectly marked is larger than
> the likelyhood that it's improperly resumed.

What should I be looking at, [um]c_flags?

  $ simple
  Found completed thread 6000000000014000, uc_flags 0x0, mc_flags 0x8, name initial thread
  Switching out thread 6000000000014000, state 0
  Threads in waiting queue:
  Found completed thread 6000000000014000, uc_flags 0x0, mc_flags 0x3, name initial thread
  Switching out thread 6000000000014000, state 0
  Threads in waiting queue:
  Found completed thread 6000000000014000, uc_flags 0x0, mc_flags 0x3, name initial thread
  Switching out thread 6000000000014000, state 0
  Threads in waiting queue:
  Found completed thread 6000000000014000, uc_flags 0x0, mc_flags 0x3, name initial thread
  Switching out thread 6000000000014000, state 0
  Threads in waiting queue:
   ...

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Dan Eischen