Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 15:07:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, alc@FreeBSD.ORG, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gcc3 & alpha kernels Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0205101507480.23832-100000@beppo> In-Reply-To: <20020510212435.GC13871@cs.rice.edu>
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Thanks. On Fri, 10 May 2002, Alan Cox wrote: > On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 12:35:28PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > Well- if it's not *too* much trouble, could you remember what they were and > > let us know so we can try? Thanks. > > > > It's no more trouble than you taking the time and effort to send a well- > formed question in the first place. Or at least, in follow-up to my > apparently inadequate response to the one-word question "comments?" > before griping on a public list. In any case, I apologize for interpreting > that as a request for comments on John's message, not as you apparently > expected as a request for instructions on how to revert some changes. > > Try reverting revision 1.137 of vm/vm_mmap.c and see if this helps. The > rest are changes to code that's still running under Giant. They only pave > the way for removing Giant elsewhere. For example, locally I'm running > the first part of vm_fault() outside of Giant, but I haven't committed > that change. > > Regards, > Alan > > > > > On Fri, 10 May 2002, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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