[OpenAFS-devel] ppc_linux26 ; LWP

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Jim Doyle wrote:

> It's been awhile (5 years) since I've tooled
> around the AFS source tree. Maybe you guys can help
> me re-remember where things stand.

Likely story.

> I have the AFS client running on a kurobox (ppc32
> architecture using an IBM 603e core / Linux 26).
> Oddly, the userland stuff does not work:
>
> kurobox ~ # bosserver -noauth
> stackcheck = 66051: stack = 66051
> topstack = 0x3005e034: stackptr = 0x3002e008:
> stacksize = 0x30000
> Thu Feb  1 20:48:30 2007 LWP: stack overflow in
> process IO MANAGER!


> I had always thought that many moons ago the LWP stuff
> was tossed out for Pthreads ?  Did this not/never
> happen?   I'm curious as to why LWP is still in play.

Servers other than file and vol, plus clients like pts and vos, still use 
lwp.