Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Aug 2007 17:25:02 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] i386: convert mm_context_t semaphore to a mutex |
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* Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br> wrote:
> | hm, looks good to me but i'm wondering why this was a holdout for > | such a long time :-) Did you manage to test actual LDT functionality > | with this patch applied? > > No, I didn't. The only test I did was to run the kernel with this > patch applied. > > I'll manage to test it then. Do you have a test-case or has any > suggestion?
i think try any pthread program with:
export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.0
should trigger the LDT code. Try stracing the code and modify_ldt calls should show up.
> Oh, btw, I forgot to 'quilt add arch/i386/mm/fault.c' [...]
heh. After a dozen of such incidents i scripted my editor command to automatically do the quilt add :)
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