Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:37:49 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Jan Mikkelsen <janm@transactionware.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Patch: sym(4) "VTOBUS FAILED" panics on amd64, amd64/89550 Message-ID: <451A001D.3040005@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <003001c6e119$b7d59e20$c801a8c0@transactionware.com> References: <003001c6e119$b7d59e20$c801a8c0@transactionware.com>
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Jan Mikkelsen wrote: > Attached is a simpler patch, after some feedback from Stefan over general > niceness. > > It removes the amd64 special case by splitting the target member (an array > of struct sym_tcb) of sym_hcb out into a separately allocated structure. > This way there is never a need to allocate anything bigger than a page and > the whole problem goes away with minimal change, less wasted memory and > fewer outright hacks. > > I did spend some time looking at ripping out the custom allocator entirely, > and got as far as it building and one of the cache tests failing. I don't > think I'm going to spend the time to track down why; if anyone wants to > pick it up then let me know. > > Regards, > > Jan Mikkelsen Looks very reasonable. Stefen, did you want to handle getting this into CVS, or would you like me to do it? Scott
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