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Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 18:43:28 -0600
From: Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: pmap_lazyfix: spun for 50000000
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On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 04:35:31PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> bento is running a 5.2-BETA kernel from early December (AFAICR), and
> recently logged this on the console:
> 
> pmap_lazyfix: spun for 50000000
> 
> The code in i386/i386/pmap.c doesn't seem to have changed recently.
> Is this a bug that has since been fixed?
> 

To the best of my knowledge, it is not evidence of a bug.  It is
a warning that a deadlock avoidance mechanism kicked in.

Alan