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Date:      Mon, 1 Oct 2001 13:19:51 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        Jos Backus <josb@cncdsl.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: VM: dynamic swap remapping (patch)
Message-ID:  <20011001131951.M31215@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010930145558.M59854@elvis.mu.org>; from bright@mu.org on Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 02:55:58PM -0500
References:  <200109291653.f8TGrRR37689@earth.backplane.com> <20010929232953.B341@eix.do-labs.spb.ru> <20010929175653.Z59854@elvis.mu.org> <20010930120328.A534@eix.do-labs.spb.ru> <20010930035529.G59854@elvis.mu.org> <20010930134437.B284@eix.do-labs.spb.ru> <20010930105509.B2220@lizzy.bugworks.com> <20010930142326.L59854@elvis.mu.org> <20010930123359.A7241@lizzy.bugworks.com> <20010930145558.M59854@elvis.mu.org>

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On Sunday, 30 September 2001 at 14:55:58 -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Jos Backus <josb@cncdsl.com> [010930 14:35] wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 02:23:26PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>>> * Jos Backus <josb@cncdsl.com> [010930 12:55] wrote:
>>>> AIX has SIGDANGER.
>>>
>>> Anyone care to tell me how it works in AIX?  If the interface is
>>> nice, cloning it would be kind of cool.
>>
>> I don't currently have access to an AIX system, but
>>
>> http://as400bks.rochester.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixbman/admnconc/pag_space_under.htm
>>
>> has some (useful) info.
>
> It sure does!
>
> I think I'm going to make a proposal on -arch about this, to be
> perfectly honest, AIX has a good implementation, I haven't read it
> all yet, but it doesn't look like it gives the applications a
> notification when the danger is gone, we'll have to figure that out,
> or I'll have to read more into this.

If it's any help, I have an AIX box here.  It belongs to IBM, so I
have to respect security issues, but I'll do what I can.

Greg
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