Try to fix, or at least avoid if possible, some arbitrary delays at
thread creation time observed when running on POWER5 64-bit Linux.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@7179 a5019735-40e9-0310-863c-91ae7b9d1cf9
diff --git a/helgrind/hg_intercepts.c b/helgrind/hg_intercepts.c
index 6a0baba..14a0fc6 100644
--- a/helgrind/hg_intercepts.c
+++ b/helgrind/hg_intercepts.c
@@ -216,8 +216,13 @@
/* we have to wait for the child to notify the tool of its
pthread_t before continuing */
while (xargs[2] != 0) {
- // FIXME: add a yield client request
- /* do nothing */
+ /* Do nothing. We need to spin until the child writes to
+ xargs[2]. However, that can lead to starvation in the
+ child and very long delays (eg, tc19_shadowmem on
+ ppc64-linux Fedora Core 6). So yield the cpu if we can,
+ to let the child run at the earliest available
+ opportunity. */
+ sched_yield();
}
} else {
DO_PthAPIerror( "pthread_create", ret );