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From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Cc: lucio@proxima.alt.za
Subject: Re: [9fans] Lock loop in malloc()
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:31:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADSkJJW0AWstkrYxAw6Sd2hTkAGN17ViSCH_73NtCJFQtg3O1g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d176b4d351dd099aeef71109668784c9@coraid.com>

>> Following Erik's direction, it seems that the lock value is 0x0deadead,
>
> btw, there appears to be a typo in /sys/src/libc/386/tas.s.  it should be spelled
> to match other arches.  for some reason all other arches use 0xdeaddead.
> unfortunately, pool also uses 0xdeaddead so this typo is fortunate.

it still didn't give you any information.
you could have deduced that value from the program counter.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-25 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-25 13:58 Lucio De Re
2011-07-25 14:40 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-25 14:42 ` Russ Cox
2011-07-25 15:17   ` Lucio De Re
2011-07-25 16:12     ` Russ Cox
2011-07-25 17:51     ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-25 19:31       ` Russ Cox [this message]
2011-07-26  1:38 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-26  1:41   ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-26  1:56   ` Russ Cox
     [not found]   ` <CADSkJJUmVYNdy_sUqqM34xdXD9CiWyUUEr89uxouAJ0ydVLpHQ@mail.gmail.c>
2011-07-26  4:01     ` erik quanstrom

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