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From: dan@debian.org (Daniel Jacobowitz)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Problems with pthread on ARM/PXA270
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:40:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090916144051.GA19307@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200909160926.02036.schindele@nentec.de>

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 09:26:01AM +0200, Juergen Schindele wrote:
> Hello all,
> we tried to implement a thread based software on our PXA270 based platform but
> we had trouble with pthreads. So i modyfied a tiny progam to test. This little progam creates
> 10 threads and each thread does print something (an index an a pointer to itself). 
> 
> On my PC with Suse 11.0 Linux (kernel 2.6.27) this works fine as supposed to.
> Each thread has his turn and print his own values.
> 
> But on our pxa270 platform the thread switch does not (or really rarely) happen
> and only one thread is printing always the same values. So i suppose thread
> switching is not working!
> 
> Any hints or experiences are welcome !!!

It's just a wild guess, but check your sched_clock implementation.  I
fixed a similar problem in QEMU last week; the kernel used to function
OK with sched_clock always returning zero, but some time between
2.6.25 and 2.6.28 became dependent on it.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-16 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-16  7:26 Problems with pthread on ARM/PXA270 Juergen Schindele
2009-09-16 14:14 ` Eric Miao
2009-09-16 15:01   ` Juergen Schindele
2009-09-16 15:06     ` Eric Miao
2009-09-17  7:35       ` Juergen Schindele
2009-09-17 12:47         ` Beckwith, Stephen (Stephen)
2009-09-17 13:06           ` Juergen Schindele
2009-09-21 21:19           ` Beckwith, Stephen (Stephen)
2009-09-16 14:40 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2009-09-18 10:06   ` Juergen Schindele
2009-09-18 14:10     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-09-16 22:01 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-16 22:54 ` [arm-gnu] " James
2009-09-18  7:53   ` Uwe Kleine-König
2009-09-18 12:48     ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-24  8:34 ` Juergen Schindele

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