| Commit message (Expand) | Author | Age | Files | Lines |
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| * | fix clobbering of caller's stack in mips __clone function•••this was resulting in crashes in posix_spawn on mips, and would have
affected applications calling clone too. since the prototype for
__clone has it as a variadic function, it may not assume that 16($sp)
is writable for use in making the syscall. instead, it needs to
allocate additional stack space, and then adjust the stack pointer
back in both of the code paths for the parent process/thread.
| Rich Felker | 2013-09-16 | 1 | -0/+3 |
| * | fix child stack alignment on mips clone•••unlike other archs, the mips version of clone was not doing anything
to align the stack pointer. this seems to have been the cause for some
SIGBUS crashes that were observed in posix_spawn.
| Rich Felker | 2013-09-14 | 1 | -0/+1 |
| * | mips clone: don't free stack space used to copy arg•••the mips abi reserves stack space equal to the size of the in-register
args for the callee to save the args, if desired. this would cause the
beginning of the thread structure to be clobbered...
| Rich Felker | 2012-07-11 | 1 | -1/+0 |
| * | fix mips clone() on real linux kernel•••the old code worked in qemu app-level emulation, but not on real
kernels where the clone syscall does not copy the register values to
the new thread. save arguments on the new thread stack instead.
| Rich Felker | 2012-07-11 | 1 | -4/+7 |
| * | fix clone() on mips (args were in wrong order)•••with this change, threads on mips seem to be working
| Rich Felker | 2012-07-11 | 1 | -3/+2 |
| * | first attempt at making threads work on mips | Rich Felker | 2012-07-11 | 1 | -0/+27 |
