Re: waitid breaks telnet

[Joe Korty]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 05:30:14PM -0500, Joe Korty wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 11:41:41AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > I've had no luck reproducing that, so there isn't much I can do.
> > 
> > Did you try bare 2.6.10-rc2?
> > 
> > >  The last
> > > time someone thought the waitid change broke something random, it was the
> > > perturbation of the compiled code vs the issue that the kernel's assembly
> > > code doesn't follow the same calling conventions the compiler expects.
> > 
> > Could be that, but I was able to reproduce it on 2.6.10-rc2 with
> > gcc-2.95.4, with which -mregparm is disabled.
> > 
> > Still.  It would be interesting if Joe could retest with CONFIG_REGPARM=n?
> 
> CONFIG_REGPARM is not set in all of my kernels (just verified).

More info: I exclusively use CONFIG_SMP and CONFIG_PREEMPT.
If it is a race either or both of these is likely to
be involved.

Joe
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