[uClibc] uClibc, pthreads, and mmap
Gregory Nutt
spudmonkey at racsa.co.cr
Mon Aug 9 13:10:04 UTC 2004
Hello, list,
I am working with someone remotely who is having a problem with mmap'ed
addresses. Since I am writing this on behalf of someone else and since
I do not have the source code, I do not have all of the details. But I
want to ask the list this question before I try to get more information
the hard way.
Is anyone aware of any general issues involving mmap() and pthreads?
Specifically, this person that I am trying to help claims the following
behavior:
1. A device driver is opened and a buffer managed by the device
driver is mmap'ed into user space. I do not know what mmap
flags were used.
2. A new thread is created using pthread_create().
3. The new thread tries to access the mmap'ed buffer and crashes.
The OS is Linux 2.4.20, the processor is an ARM926EJ, and the uClibc
version is 0.9.20. At the crash, the following is printed:
> Unhandled fault: external abort on non-linefetch (0x008) at
0x40006c1c
> pgd = c3e90000
> *pgd = c3e96001, *pmd = c3e96001, *pte = 10026033, *ppte =10026aa2
> Bus error
My (shaky) interpretation of this data suggests that the mapping is not
supported by the page table.
Apparently, this problem does not occur if glibc is used.
Any ideas? Sorry that I have so little detailed information.
Thanks in advance,
Gregory Nutt
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