[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH] spufs: fix missing stop-and-signal

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Friday 17 November 2006 02:35, Noguchi, Masato wrote:
> I heard this problem happened in following conditions:
> 
>  (1) ppe process attached to gdb.
>  (2) program creates many spe thread(In other words, ppe uses many
> pthread).
>  (3) spe prints many debug print by spe-side printf().
> 
> GDB sends signals when new pthread created. And spe's printf implemented
> by stop-and-signal. If these conflict, next instruction of
> stop-and-signal
> is executed (unfortunately, it is a data, not instruction).
> 
> But, I think it's a rare case. Usually spe do not stop so often and
> signals are not used so positively except gdb.
> About 2.6.19, Use your judgment.
> 
Ok, thanks for the explanation. I'll keep it in the 2.6.20 queue then.

	Arnd <><