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Date:      Wed, 11 Dec 1996 12:00:47 -0600 (CST)
From:      bugs@freebsd.netcom.com (Mark Hittinger)
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mlocking an mmap'ped region? (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199612111800.MAA00824@freebsd.netcom.com>

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> > The following does not seem to work on a 2.2-CURRENT box (built yesterday).
> > It does seem to work on SunOS.
> > 
> > Is it just too early to be doing programming or is there really something
> > preventing me from doing this?
> > 
> Yep, it is called broken code :-(.  That problem was just brought to my
> attention yesterday.  Unfortunately, someone also wants it fixed in 2.1.X :-(.
> 
> I'll probably get it fixed in -current in the next day or so.  Doing mlock
> the way that it is currently done is problematical from a couple of viewpoints,
> so I think it is going to need to be reworked.  Basically, the original
> way of doing vm_map_pageable is wrong for userland pages.

Isn't this also a big problem on SMP?  :-)

Later

Mark Hittinger
Netcom/Dallas
bugs@freebsd.netcom.com



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