Garbage Collection thread questions

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Wednesday 23 July 2003 02:02, Vikram Mehta wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I am trying to solve the problem of  mount-crashing-the-system problem.
>
> 1.) The GC thread written in background.c is primarily a optimization.
> So can I avoid using it for the time being.
> I am almost certain that GC is the  problem for my mount crashing the
> system
You can by rewriting the code.
I'm almost sure, that GC is not the problem.

> 2.) Kernel_thread used in background.c makes a new thread  .. right?
> But I have read that in uClinux, parent and child thread have the same
> stack. ( Correct me if I am wrong anywhere)
> So if the stack space is the same, will not one thread curropt the return
> addresses etc of hte other thread.
> So iun uClinux , how do I make sure this does not happen. I am getting
> little confused here

It runs on uClinux wihtout any problem.

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Thomas
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