On 17 June 2015 at 01:52, Emilio G. Cota <c...@braap.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble running a simple multithreaded program on a PowerPC host > machine. > > The machine I'm using is a ppc VM--I think it's running under KVM (I'm using > OVH's RunAbove Power8 service): > admin@adsf:~/qemu$ uname -a > Linux adsf 3.13.0-37-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 22 21:27:09 UTC 2014 > ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux > > admin@adsf:~/qemu$ ppc64le-linux-user/qemu-ppc64le foo
Multithreaded binaries don't work with linux-user; there are a bunch of known race conditions involving data structures we don't correctly lock or make per-thread. This is a long-standing issue; we're hoping we might get to fixing it some time this year. thanks -- PMM
