From owner-cvs-all Thu Aug 6 01:38:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA25066 for cvs-all-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 01:38:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA25052; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 01:38:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) id SAA00314; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 18:43:09 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199808060843.SAA00314@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_bio.c vfs_cluster.c src/sys/vm vm_fault.c vm_map.c vm_object.c vm_object.h vm_pageout.c In-Reply-To: <199808060833.BAA21631@freefall.freebsd.org> from Doug Rabson at "Aug 6, 98 01:33:20 am" To: dfr@FreeBSD.ORG (Doug Rabson) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 18:43:07 +1000 (EST) Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug Rabson wrote: > dfr 1998/08/06 01:33:19 PDT > > Modified files: > sys/kern vfs_bio.c vfs_cluster.c > sys/vm vm_fault.c vm_map.c vm_object.c > vm_object.h vm_pageout.c > Log: > Protect all modifications to paging_in_progress with splvm(). The i386 > managed to avoid corruption of this variable by luck (the compiler used a > memory read-modify-write instruction which wasn't interruptable) but other > architectures cannot. > > With this change, I am now able to 'make buildworld' on the alpha (sfx: the > crowd goes wild...) Support for AXPpci33? -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137