Jan Kiszka wrote: > Jan Kiszka wrote: >> Hi, >> >> something for the night: Can someone explain why normal pthreads can be >> restricted to initially use only the stack size provided via >> pthread_attr_setstacksize() while any rt-mapped thread (posix and >> native) refuse to accept this? For a simple test, compile the attached >> program one time as normal >> >> gcc -lpthread -o stacksize stacksize.c >> >> and the other time against xeno's posix skin >> >> gcc `xeno-config --posix-cflags` `xeno-config --posix-ldflags` \ >> -o stacksize.o stacksize.c >> >> Then compare the memory requirements of both processes - they should >> differ by 2M, the stack size when pthread_attr_setstacksize is not used. >> Strange - and also critical when considering larger applications... > > This has been nailed down now to be some strange linker problem: while > the standard version of the stacksize demo calls the latest > pthread_create (__pthread_create_2_1 in glibc-2.3.x), the wrapped > real-time version and likely also applications linked against libnative > call an older pthread_create (__pthread_create_2_0). That variant > assumes that pthread_attr_t does not yet contain things like the stack > size and fills in the standard value again. :( > > Can anyone with another build environment than my SuSE 10 confirm this? > >> So far I only tested against 2.1, but I don't see a reason why 2.0.x >> should behave different. Will get checked, though. >> > > Same behaviour on 2.0.x (SVN). > > Jan >
The attached patch fixes this issue for 2.1-SVN. A similar patch should be applied to 2.0.x as well. And maybe it also hits the UVM, but this is something I cannot assess ATM. Well, you know, the smaller the bug... :-/ Jan PS: For those you are interested why we need this, read https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145941 Found via google:"pthread_create NOTYPE" after I noticed the differences in "readelf -s libnative.so".
Index: src/skins/native/Makefile.am
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--- src/skins/native/Makefile.am (revision 243)
+++ src/skins/native/Makefile.am (working copy)
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
lib_LTLIBRARIES = libnative.la
-libnative_la_LDFLAGS = -module -version-info 0:0:0
+libnative_la_LDFLAGS = -module -version-info 0:0:0 -pthread
libnative_la_SOURCES = \
alarm.c \
Index: src/skins/posix/Makefile.am
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--- src/skins/posix/Makefile.am (revision 243)
+++ src/skins/posix/Makefile.am (working copy)
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
lib_LTLIBRARIES = libpthread_rt.la
-libpthread_rt_la_LDFLAGS = -module -version-info 0:0:0
+libpthread_rt_la_LDFLAGS = -module -version-info 0:0:0 -lpthread
libpthread_rt_la_SOURCES = \
init.c \
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