Re: [PATCH] x86 tls prevent_tail_call

[Tomasz Grobelny]

Dnia Wednesday 27 of February 2008, Roland McGrath napisał:
> > i'm wondering, have you seen this happen in practice? We use
> > sys_set_thread_area() for every new task started up. I guess we havent
> > seen problems in the field yet because this early during startup tasks
> > do not normally receive signals? (or if they do they are fatal and no
> > user signal context is used.)
>
> Tomasz saw it.  I don't know what compiler or exact options to it he used.
>
VMware image from http://student.agh.edu.pl/~grobelny/linux/BUG.tar 
demonstrates the problem. I didn't play with compiler options myself but used
http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/SPECS/kernel-vanilla.spec (rev. 
1.129) as basis for my build.
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Regards,
Tomasz Grobelny
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