L4-Linux

[Jean Wolter]

Harald Fritzsche <Harald.Fritzsche at mpd.de> writes:

> 
> Hallo Hackers,
> 
> I found (i hope so) the reason for the kbd: sig_sched: invalid
> ext_preempter in
> L4-Linux,  reported earlier.
> 
> In file :
>     linux/arch/l4-i386/lib/task.c
> in function:
>     start_linux_server_thread()
> is used the variable
>     l4_threadid_t     foo_id
> uninitialized.
> I set foo_id to L4_INVALID_ID and the sig_sched disappears. But i don't
> if this is intended from the authors.

Thanks for reporting this. Since L4/Intel never used the value of
'external preempter' we (at least I) have not seen this 'error'.

> Also the null-pointer test gives an error message.

Could you provide some more details? If everything works correctly you
should see a complained from the root pager (something like 'Hmm,
strange, that shouldn't happen anymore' on a hercules monitor) and a
message from the linux server 'mem_init: null pointer dereference
detection seems to work'.

If you see 'mem_init: null pointer check failed' then something is
wrong and the zero page was not flushed correctly. That's something
Michael should be interested in.

Jean
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