Subject: Re: RC4 also dies with pthreads
To: ali (Anders Lindgren) <dat94ali@ludat.lth.se>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 10/21/2004 14:39:09
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 02:12:10PM +0200, ali (Anders Lindgren) wrote:
> It seems sparc64 pthreads are really shaky, esp. when paging
> activity is involved.

Yeah, sparc suffers from the same problem.
I looks like the kernel tries an upcall and does not expect the copyout
to fault because the user stack is paged out.

It is a MI problem, but more unlikely to happen on non-register-window
archs.

Martin