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Date:      Sun, 10 Nov 2002 18:12:54 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        "Alan L. Cox" <alc@imimic.com>
Cc:        Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>, Matt Jacob <mjacob@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm uma_dbg.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211101810230.62965-100000@beppo>
In-Reply-To: <3DCEAA0E.337BF15B@imimic.com>

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Sorry for the delay- I took the kid to see gramma...

Sure- let me look at this a little closer - I'll interrupt the make
release and try a different approach.

Sorry for not reading the atomic stuff closer. I mean, after all, I
believe that sparc *does* have atomic byte instructions. My bad for not
reading the man page closeer.

-matt


On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Alan L. Cox wrote:

> Jake Burkholder wrote:
> > 
> > Apparently, On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 08:16:44AM -0800,
> >         Matt Jacob said words to the effect of;
> > 
> > > mjacob      2002/11/10 08:16:44 PST
> > >
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     sys/vm               uma_dbg.c
> > >   Log:
> > >   Use atomic_set_8 on the us_freelist maps as they are not otherwise
> > >   protected. Furthermore, in some RISC architectures with no normal
> > >   byte operations, the surrounding 3 bytes are also affected by the
> > >   read-modify-write that has to occur.
> > >
> > >   Revision  Changes    Path
> > >   1.9       +2 -2      src/sys/vm/uma_dbg.c
> > 
> > sparc64 can't do atomic operations on less than 32 bits, this needs
> > a lock.
> > 
> 
> Matt, can you try acquiring and releasing the zone mutex in
> uma_dbg_alloc() and uma_dbg_free() instead?
> 
> Alan
> 



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