From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 30 20:49:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B49F637B406 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 20:49:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id DF0856AB15; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 13:19:51 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 13:19:51 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Jos Backus , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VM: dynamic swap remapping (patch) Message-ID: <20011001131951.M31215@wantadilla.lemis.com> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010930145558.M59854@elvis.mu.org>; from bright@mu.org on Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 02:55:58PM -0500 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 30 September 2001 at 14:55:58 -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Jos Backus [010930 14:35] wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 02:23:26PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >>> * Jos Backus [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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message