On lun, jui 28, 2008 at 04:54:29 +0000, Petr Salinger wrote: > >Well I'm not surprised, hppa is one of the sole architecture still > >using linuxthreads, > > Not exactly, kfreebsd-i386 and kfreebsd-amd64 also use linuxthreads > add-on, there is no problem shown on them. > > >and probably rwlock/mutexes are different enough so > >that seeing one of them like the other makes odd things, whereas NPTL > >has some kind of overlapping semantics on both that if it doesn't do the > >right thing, doesn't break mutexes too much ;) (I'm just guessing the > >the overlapping bits, but I really mean that hppa *is* different wrt > >locking). > > My guess is the difference between i386/amd64 and hppa is a need for > kernel support for compare-and-swap. On hppa, there have to be syscall, > which may easily lead into rescheduling, race condition > is just hitted more freqently on hppa. > > Anyway, it is only guess, build on hppa will show whether > it would solve the problem.
\o/ it built fine thanks a lot for your help. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O [EMAIL PROTECTED] OOO http://www.madism.org
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