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authorValery Ushakov <uwe@stderr.spb.ru>2019-03-09 22:03:59 +0300
committerValery Ushakov <uwe@stderr.spb.ru>2019-03-09 22:03:59 +0300
commit9b7850d511c2c910abfb42ece20650b97fba5a72 (patch)
treeb8d3eff06cb352ade2bddcb4043c1b1762671675
parentcd4ca1116680f235d174415e18ec972c4000fffd (diff)
Work around a problem on macppc with kernel semaphores.
NetBSD/macppc 7 and later seems to have a bug in kernel based pthread semaphores. When running emu interactively shell would forever hang in sem_wait() after the first interactive command. I added sem_getvalue() after sem_init() as a debugging aid to get the semaphore id in ktrace output and it magically fixed the problem. For now just leave it here as a workaround under appropriate ifdef.
-rw-r--r--emu/port/kproc-pthreads.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/emu/port/kproc-pthreads.c b/emu/port/kproc-pthreads.c
index a15a7cd3..c6caded6 100644
--- a/emu/port/kproc-pthreads.c
+++ b/emu/port/kproc-pthreads.c
@@ -122,6 +122,12 @@ kproc(char *name, void (*func)(void*), void *arg, int flags)
panic("kproc: no memory");
os->self = 0; /* set by tramp */
sem_init(&os->sem, 0, 0);
+#if defined(__NetBSD__) && defined(__powerpc__)
+ { /* XXX: Work around a problem on macppc with kernel semaphores. */
+ int val;
+ sem_getvalue(&os->sem, &val);
+ }
+#endif
p->os = os;
if(flags & KPDUPPG) {