Re: L4Android kernel didn't intialize L4 stack for the server thread.

Haohui Mai <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.micro-kernel.l4.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
One more related question -- it seems that when I call Linux functions, e.g., vmalloc(). The contents of message registers are no longer preserved.

Is it desired behavior?

I appreciate if you could document it somewhere if it's indeed the case. :-)

~Haohui

On Apr 2, 2012, at 4:23 AM, Adam Lackorzynski wrote:

> 
> On Sun Apr 01, 2012 at 15:09:11 -0500, Mai, Haohui wrote:
>> It seems that I found a bug in the latest version of L4Android kernel. I'm
>> familiar enough with the code base so your comments are highly appreciated.
>> 
>> The main thread for L4Linux (i.e., the thread running l4x_server_loop())
>> didn't initialize l4x_stack before execution. Therefore, this thread
>> crashes whenever it calls cli() / sti().
>> 
>> Calling vmalloc() and kmalloc() can reproduce this bug reliably. Here is a
>> patch to fix this problem.
> 
> On this thread no Linux code must be called, so any stack setup is not
> required. Call Linux functionality only in proper CPU contexts.
> 
> 
> 
> Adam
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