Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 19:15:10 +0000 (UTC) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_param.c Message-ID: <200510141915.j9EJFAxO078089@repoman.freebsd.org>
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kris 2005-10-14 19:15:10 UTC
FreeBSD src repository
Modified files:
sys/kern subr_param.c
Log:
Partially revert revision 1.66, which contained a change that did not
correspond to the commit log. It changed the maxswzone and maxbcache
parameters from int to long, without changing the extern definitions
in <sys/buf.h>.
In fact it's a good thing it did not, because other parts of the system
are not yet ready for this, and on large-memory sparc machines it causes
severe filesystem damage if you try.
The worst effect of the change was that the tunables controlling the
above variables stopped working. These were necessary to allow such
large sparc64 machines (with >12GB RAM) to boot, since sparc64 did not
set a hard-coded upper limit on these parameters and they ended
up overflowing an int, causing an infinite loop at boot in bufinit().
Reviewed by: mlaier
Revision Changes Path
1.72 +4 -4 src/sys/kern/subr_param.c
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