Add Xianyi's patch for segfaults on kernel 2.6.32 and add documentation

accordingly.
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Alexander Eberspächer 2012-05-02 11:33:06 +02:00
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number of threads will consume extra resource. I recommend you to
specify minimum number of threads.
1.9 Q I have segfaults when I compile with USE_OPENMP=1. What's wrong?
A This may be related to a bug in the Linux kernel 2.6.32. Try applying
the patch segaults.patch using
git am segfaults.patch
and see if the crashes persist.
2. Architecture Specific issue or Implementation

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From ac40907baa90a0acc78139762ffa3c6f09274236 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Alexander=20Ebersp=C3=A4cher?= <alex.eberspaecher@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 11:22:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix segfaults with kernel 2.6.32. This comes at the price of many compiler warnings.
---
common_linux.h | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/common_linux.h b/common_linux.h
index b0381d9..40a94cb 100644
--- a/common_linux.h
+++ b/common_linux.h
@@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ static inline int my_mbind(void *addr, unsigned long len, int mode,
#endif
#else
//Fixed randomly SEGFAULT when nodemask==NULL with above Linux 2.6.34
-// unsigned long null_nodemask=0;
- return syscall(SYS_mbind, addr, len, mode, nodemask, maxnode, flags);
+ unsigned long null_nodemask=0;
+ return syscall(SYS_mbind, addr, len, mode, &nodemask, maxnode, flags);
#endif
}
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