From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 16 18:22:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA07955 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 18:22:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA07771 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 18:21:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michaelh@cet.co.jp) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.8.8/CET-v2.2) with SMTP id CAA14168; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 02:19:50 GMT Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 11:19:50 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: Tor Egge cc: mike@smith.net.au, toor@dyson.iquest.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VM messed: vm_page_free panic problem In-Reply-To: <199802170115.CAA21240@pat.idi.ntnu.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Tor Egge wrote: > > How can we encourage you to pursue more of these interesting issues? > > Resources? Incentives? Effusive thanks? > > After I've completed my Ph.D. thesis, I might tell you. > > > I've committed it to -current; I was going to ask if it was required > > in -stable (ie. is this a fundamental problem, or just one that's > > arisen out of changes to -current?) > > I believe -stable has the same problem (ffs_getpages calls calls VOP_GETPAGES, > mfs doesn't implement VOP_GETPAGES). This is based upon looking through > the source code, I've not actually triggered the problem in -stable. > > - Tor Egge Somehow, this still seems to be a work-around to me. We shouldn't panic because mfs doesn't implement VOP_GETPAGES. Unfortunately, I can't think of a fix that isn't ugly. Mike Hancock To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message