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Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 14:20:28 -0500
From: Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>
To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, alc@FreeBSD.ORG,
	Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG,
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Subject: Re: gcc3 & alpha kernels
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On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 11:47:22AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> > Matt Jacob had a VM object related panic with the old gcc.  Try backing
> > out Alan Cox's changes to remove Giant from some things in the VM
> > system adn see if it does better.
> 
> It'd be nice to not have to grovel through cvs logs at 144KBit to know what
> these are.
> 
> I have to say that Alan wasn't all that forthcoming about this.
> 

I'm sorry, but this makes it sound like I never responded.  My response
follows:

On Fri, 10 May 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 03:14:16PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> >
> > comments?
>
> Hmm.  I haven't touched anything at the level of this panic.  The closest
> I've come is making vm_object_allocate() callable without Giant.
>
> Regards,
> Alan
>

The bottom line is that I haven't touched anything in the neighborhood
of the problem you're seeing.  So, I seriously doubt that backing out
any of my recent changes will have an effect.

Regards,
Alan

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