Re: TLS/lwp_private support

[Adam Hamsik <haaaad%gmail.com@localhost>]

On May,Monday 24 2010, at 8:46 AM, Pouya D. Tafti wrote:

> On 11 May 2010 09:26, Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 09:48:25PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> attached is a patch to properly implement %fs/%gs handling on amd64.
> [...]
>> 
>> Applied on my Sony VAIO laptop which has Intel CPUs, it make the
>> compat linux works. While most binaries crashed before, they now seems
>> to work just fine. Great !
>> 
>> In the mean time, this seems to break 32bit compats. Both netbsd32 and
>> linux binaries don't go anywhere except in a loop eating all CPU.
> [...]
> 
> I also tried the patch on an Intel Core i5 and had a similar
> experience.  I could get further than before with 64-bit Linux
> binaries coming from a 64-bit Linux partition mounted at /emul/linux
> and ran with a fake raised kernel version.  Graphical programs
> eventually failed because they could not connect to the X server,
> complaining about the socket type being wrong for the protocol or
> something similar (which I did not figure out how to get around).  But
> this was already quite promising, considering that with an unpatched
> kernel they just dump core.

CAn you ktrace this process and post output here ?

> 
> On the other hand, as Nicholas Joy said, previously working 32-bit
> binaries stop working and just use 100% cpu with his patch.
> 
> Thanks,
> Pouya

Regards

Adam.