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Date:      Sat, 15 Apr 2000 18:02:43 -0500
From:      Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>
To:        Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Michael Reifenberger <root@nihil.plaut.de>, current@freebsd.org, alc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: panic: vm_object_shadow: source object has OBJ_ONEMAPPING set.
Message-ID:  <20000415180243.D3462@cs.rice.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004151810080.17351-100000@green.dyndns.org>; from Brian Fundakowski Feldman on Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 06:12:22PM -0400
References:  <200004151823.LAA79731@apollo.backplane.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004151810080.17351-100000@green.dyndns.org>

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On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 06:12:22PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
> >     Note that the ref_count == 1 test in the vm_object_shadow optimization
> >     should be left intact.  This optimization requires a much stricter set
> >     of tests because we do not want to assume sharability of an object
> >     if someone else (the 'else' being 'someone unknown to us') has a reference
> >     on it, even if OBJ_ONEMAPPING is set.
> 
> The KASSERT is broken in another way, BTW: it has undefined (read:
> panic before the test even occurs) results if source is NULL, which
> vm_object_shadow otherwise handles.  I don't know why it's never been
> tripped on, though...
> 

Other parts of the VM insure that we never try to create
a shadow object for a non-existant backing object.

Alan


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