On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 14:06:18 -0500
Ryan Stone <[email protected]> mentioned:

> I've been trying out valgrind on some threaded FreeBSD applications
> but they've been deadlocking at startup.  I've identified that the
> root cause is that FreeBSD's thread local storage is not being
> emulated properly by valgrind.  The problem on amd64 is obvious:
> valgrind gives an invalid opcode error when the program tries to
> execute any instruction that accesses the gs register.  On i386 the
> problem is much more subtle.
> 
> I've attached two test applications that demonstrate the problem.  In
> pthread_self.c, I create one thread which periodically prints
> pthread_self(), and then 10 seconds later I create a second thread.
> After the second thread is created, the first thread believes that it
> is the second thread.  Here's an example invocation:
> 

Thank you a lot for the information, I'll try to look into this soon and
will followup in detail.

Sorry for delay in replying.

-- 
Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE
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