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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Context Switching is Broken
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:59:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100610225930.GD32362@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilfwCVpr7JrLlWLIXV1DtAGZyRpvDd_8W-qfq5t@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:29:12PM +0100, Martin Guy wrote:
> While context switching works fine - any Unix system would have a hard
> time working without it - these four esoteric system calls are not
> implemented in the ARM port of Linux. If you'd like to modify the
> linux source code to implement them, I'm sure the community would be
> happy to review the patches for inclusion in the next version of the
> kernel.

If you read what I said:

"I believe for glibc, these are simply unimplemented on ARM, and linking
a program which uses makecontext with glibc would result in the linker
issuing:"

These calls are nothing to do with the kernel.  They're a subject purely
for glibc.  So there's no modification to the Linux kernel source code
which could effect their implementation.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-10 22:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-10 11:11 Context Switching is Broken Herman Swartz
2010-06-10 14:01 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-06-10 14:16   ` Will Deacon
2010-06-10 14:20     ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-06-10 20:36       ` Martin Guy
2010-06-10 21:18         ` Herman Swartz
2010-06-10 21:29           ` Martin Guy
2010-06-10 22:59             ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2010-06-10 23:26               ` Herman Swartz
2010-06-10 23:36                 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-06-10 23:22             ` Herman Swartz

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