From: Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: [9fans] 9vx fork problem
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:32:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080630003250.GA8819@dinah> (raw)
On 9vx, iostats suicides:
term% iostats echo
iostats 128: suicide: sys: trap: page fault pc=0x0000b21c
Apparently, after a fork, a child retains it's parent's
pid in _tos->pid. It isn't updated until the next syscall
finishes with kexit.
This is a problem if the child's first function call is
malloc. When malloc locks it's pool, it stores the pid
from _tos in a private area. After the kernel returns from
the brk, _tos->pid has been corrected by the call to kexit.
Punlock then fails because the pids don't match.
I'm not sure of the best way to go about fixing this.
Anthony
next reply other threads:[~2008-06-30 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-30 0:32 Anthony Martin [this message]
2008-06-30 2:02 ` Russ Cox
2008-06-30 3:25 ` Anthony Martin
2008-06-30 12:34 ` Steve Simon
2008-06-30 12:42 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-06-30 15:14 ` Robert William Fuller
2008-06-30 12:51 ` Russ Cox
2008-06-30 13:03 ` Steve Simon
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