Robust mutexes on MIPS?

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Sat Aug 26 03:51:00 GMT 2006


On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 04:54:37PM -0700, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> Have any of you MIPS people out there been able to actually get the
> tst-robust*.c test from GLIBC to run?
> 
> I put a bunch of traces into tst-robust8.c. The parent's waitpid() for
> the multithreaded child process succeeds. But execution doesn't get past
> the loop where the parent tries to pthread_mutex_lock all of the now
> dead mutexes owned by the child. Those calls should return EOWNERDIED.
> 
> I'm running kernel 2.6.17.7 from linux-mips.org, with glibc and ports
> recently checked out from CVS head.
> 
> I built glibc with --enable-kernel=2.6.17.7
> 
> What's the general status of robust mutexes? Should work? Known not to?

I'm afraid I haven't had time to test on MIPS in a while, and we keep
meaning to run automated testing on HEAD but haven't got it set up yet. 
So I have no idea what the status is; we only got it to compile.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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