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Date:      Wed, 6 Nov 2002 18:58:04 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, alc@FreeBSD.ORG, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: alpha: top of tree kernel blooie
Message-ID:  <15817.44172.809351.382956@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211061553110.90126-100000@beppo>
References:  <20021106182932.J1374-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211061553110.90126-100000@beppo>

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Matthew Jacob writes:
 > > 
 > > Such as?
 > > 
 > > Thanks!
 > > Jeff
 > > 
 > > 
 > 
 > Some atomic changes he made.

alpha/include/atomic.h  rev 1.17 (try 1.16)
alpha/alpha/atomic.s rev 1.6 (try 1.5)

John thinks the expensive extra memory barriers in the atomic ops may
have masked existing pmap problems.  I've been running the patch for 
2 months on a UP config and not seen any problems.  I did once see a
strange Heisenbug when using an SMP kernel on a UP machine, but,
again, not sure if that's related to the atomic changes.  Once I put
in a ktr to trace the trap, the bug disappeared.

Since you're using the K0SEG, I"m not sure how pmap comes into play.

Drew

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