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Date:      Mon, 9 Aug 2004 11:12:29 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:    Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 pmap.c src/sys/kern subr_witness.c
Message-ID:  <200408091112.29286.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040808042703.GA64746@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <200408042031.i74KVKUf039025@repoman.freebsd.org> <200408041634.03998.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040808042703.GA64746@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Sunday 08 August 2004 12:27 am, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 04:34:03PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 04 August 2004 04:31 pm, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > jhb         2004-08-04 20:31:19 UTC
> > >
> > >   FreeBSD src repository
> > >
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     sys/i386/i386        pmap.c
> > >     sys/kern             subr_witness.c
> > >   Log:
> > >   Remove a potential deadlock on i386 SMP by changing the lazypmap ipi
> > > and spin-wait code to use the same spin mutex (smp_tlb_mtx) as the TLB
> > > ipi and spin-wait code snippets so that you can't get into the
> > > situation of one CPU doing a TLB shootdown to another CPU that is doing
> > > a lazy pmap shootdown each of which are waiting on each other.  With
> > > this change, only one of the CPUs would do an IPI and spin-wait at a
> > > time.
> >
> > Both this patch and the previous I have tested locally and also sent out
> > to current@ for testing.  However, I received zero feedback (not even
> > useless feedback), so they may theoretically be risky.
>
> Isn't this the patch I tested for you and reported that it did not fix
> the problem?

Yes, but I sent out _two_ patches to current@ and you didn't test the second 
one I guess.

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