NPTL MIPS, current git head, programs block on startup

[Andreas Schultz]

Hi Timo,

2010/4/27 Timo Teräs <timo.teras at iki.fi>:
> Andreas Schultz wrote:
>>
[...]

> Uh. Is the application linked against libc before libpthread?

The application is not directly linked against libpthread, but one of
the other libraries pulls it in.

> Check with ldd the order of how libraries are pulled in.
>
>> Looking at init.c my best guess would be that
>> .ptr__pthread_cleanup_push_defer should be initialized with
>> __pthread_cleanup_push_defer and not with _pthread_cleanup_push_defer
>> (two undelines instead of one).
>
> It's because MIPS ld.so is not supporting protected symbols yet.
> Mmm... Using the two underscore variant might help for immediate
> problems, but other things will broken unless protected symbols
> are implemented.

The two underscore change alone is not sufficient, i have now managed
to get it working with the attached patch. Everything seems to fine so
far.

> Changing linking order of application to pull in libpthread first
> should fix it too.

I'll try that...

Andreas