From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: convert mm_context_t semaphore to a mutex
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 17:25:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070806152502.GA6988@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070806103615.4be4670f@localhost>
* 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 :)
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-06 15:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-03 13:55 [PATCH] i386: convert mm_context_t semaphore to a mutex Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-08-06 7:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-06 13:34 ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-08-06 13:36 ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-08-06 15:25 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-08-06 17:15 ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-08-06 17:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-08-06 19:32 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-06 20:36 ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-08-06 13:36 ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-08-06 21:10 ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-08-06 13:39 ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
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