Re: [PATCH 1/2] alpha: Remove "strange" OSF/1 fork semantics

[Michael Cree]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:42:31AM -1000, Richard Henderson wrote:
> The assignment to regs->r20 kills the original tls_val input
> to the clone syscall, which means that clone can no longer be
> restarted with the original inputs.
> 
> We could, perhaps, retain this result for true fork, but OSF/1
> compatibility is no longer important.  Note that glibc has never
> used the r20 result value, instead always testing r0 vs 0 to
> determine the child/parent status.
> 
> This failure can be seen in the glibc nptl/tst-eintr* tests.
> 
> Reported-by: Michael Cree <mcree@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <rth@xxxxxxxxxxx>

The glibc nptl/tst-eintr3 test now works successfully on the SMP
system with the patched kernel.

In addition builds of openjdk-6 or openjdk-7 use to always fail
because javac would randomly lock up at some point.  A test build of
openjdk-6 has just built successfully to completion with the patched
kernel.

I am not able to test whether OSF/1 compatibility is adversely
affected.

Tested-by: Michael Cree <mcree@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Cheers
Michael.
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