From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 22 13: 8:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3393B37B401 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:08:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC61943E3B for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:08:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 30938 invoked from network); 22 Nov 2002 21:08:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 22 Nov 2002 21:08:00 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAML7p2D043747; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 16:07:51 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20021122162443.GA3154@tiiu.internal> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 16:07:56 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Vallo Kallaste Subject: Re: DP2 Fatal Trap Cc: Scott Sipe , current@FreeBSD.org, Terry Lambert Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 22-Nov-2002 Vallo Kallaste wrote: > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:57:42AM -0500, John Baldwin > wrote: > >> > It has an effect: writing CR3 or a TSS resulting in a changed CR3 >> > will not invalidate TLB entries with the G flag set, if PGE is set >> > in CR4. >> >> I know what PG_G does, Terry. My question is that if DISABLE_PG_G has >> no effect on the _problems_ people are having. > > I have now definitive answer for _my_ case and environment. Just > finished full package build for my workstation bundle port (92 > ports), including XFree-4, KDE3, mozilla-devel and whatnot. It all > went very well running kernel which had: > > DISABLE_PSE enabled > DISABLE_PG_G disabled > > Are you interested of the reverse? Can it be that enabling > DISABLE_PSE incorporates DISABLE_PG_G somehow? No, they are completely orthogonal. Thanks for the info though. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message