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Date:      Fri, 22 Nov 2002 16:07:56 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Vallo Kallaste <kalts@estpak.ee>
Cc:        Scott Sipe <cscotts@mindspring.com>, current@FreeBSD.org, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Subject:   Re: DP2 Fatal Trap
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20021122160756.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021122162443.GA3154@tiiu.internal>

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On 22-Nov-2002 Vallo Kallaste wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:57:42AM -0500, John Baldwin
> <jhb@FreeBSD.org> 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.

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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