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Add Xianyi's patch for segfaults on kernel 2.6.32 and add documentation

accordingly.
tags/v0.2.0^2
Alexander Eberspächer 14 years ago
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number of threads will consume extra resource. I recommend you to number of threads will consume extra resource. I recommend you to
specify minimum number of threads. specify minimum number of threads.


1.9 Q I have segfaults when I compile with USE_OPENMP=1. What's wrong?

A This may be related to a bug in the Linux kernel 2.6.32. Try applying
the patch segaults.patch using

git am segfaults.patch

and see if the crashes persist.


2. Architecture Specific issue or Implementation 2. Architecture Specific issue or Implementation




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From ac40907baa90a0acc78139762ffa3c6f09274236 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Alexander=20Ebersp=C3=A4cher?= <alex.eberspaecher@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 11:22:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix segfaults with kernel 2.6.32. This comes at the price of many compiler warnings.

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common_linux.h | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/common_linux.h b/common_linux.h
index b0381d9..40a94cb 100644
--- a/common_linux.h
+++ b/common_linux.h
@@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ static inline int my_mbind(void *addr, unsigned long len, int mode,
#endif
#else
//Fixed randomly SEGFAULT when nodemask==NULL with above Linux 2.6.34
-// unsigned long null_nodemask=0;
- return syscall(SYS_mbind, addr, len, mode, nodemask, maxnode, flags);
+ unsigned long null_nodemask=0;
+ return syscall(SYS_mbind, addr, len, mode, &nodemask, maxnode, flags);
#endif
}
--
1.7.1


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