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Date:      Thu, 07 Nov 2002 10:07:55 -0500
From:      "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 exception.s genassym.c trap.c vm86.c vm86bios.s src/sys/i386/include pcb.h vm86.h 
Message-ID:  <200211071507.gA7F7tQO051899@green.bikeshed.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Nov 2002 17:34:23 PST." <200211070134.gA71YNn0045906@repoman.freebsd.org> 

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David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> davidxu     2002/11/06 17:34:23 PST
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/i386/i386        exception.s genassym.c trap.c vm86.c 
>                          vm86bios.s 
>     sys/i386/include     pcb.h vm86.h 
>   Log:
>   1.Fix smp race between kernel vm86 BIOS calling and userland vm86 mode code,
>     remove global variable in_vm86call, set vm86 calling flag in PCB flags.
>   
>   2.Fix vm86 BIOS calling preempted problem by changing vm86_lock mutex type
>     from MTX_DEF to MTX_SPIN. vm86pcb is not remembered in thread struct,
>     when the thread calling vm86 BIOS is preempted by interrupt thread,
>     and later switching back to the thread would cause incorrect context be
>     loaded into CPU registers, this leads to kernel crash.

Will this fix my execution of doscmd on my SMP machine, perhaps?

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