On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 12:09:54AM +1100, Simon Burge wrote:

> Christopher SEKIYA wrote:
> 
> > I suspect that pthreads are broken on MIPS -- a week or two ago, someone else
> > on port-sgimips noted that a simple pthread example program would kill the
> > machine.
> > 
> > Do any MIPS gurus have the time to look at this?  I'm not exactly qualified to
> > go rooting around in what is probably going to be pmap code ...
> 
> I'll try to look at this some more over the weekend.

It looks like this problem has been around since November 2002(!).  I've
fixed this with rev 1.102 of sys/arch/mips/mips/vm_machdep.c.  The fork
pthread regression test now works.  If some folks can try more complex
programs and report the results I'd be appreciative.

Simon.
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