From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 18 23: 1:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [65.0.135.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0CA237B401; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:01:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mobile.wemm.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0J71Bk09591; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:01:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200101190701.f0J71Bk09591@mobile.wemm.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Soren Schmidt Cc: jhb@FreeBSD.ORG (John Baldwin), bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), current@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, rjesup@wgate.com Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: await/asleep removal imminent In-Reply-To: <200101181525.QAA21260@freebsd.dk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:01:11 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Peter Wemm wrote: > > > > Soren, can you retest a buildworld with the currently committed kernel > > with no other changes? Let us see if the forward_signal() stuff is the > > culprit, and if not, try adding just the i386/i386/machdep.c patch to HLT > > the idle CPU. (if *that* makes a difference then we have got trouble!) > > It seems that the HLT thing is exactly the patch that makes it work! > > So we have trouble, I said that all along .5 :) So, the difference between -current working for you or not is this: +++ machdep.c 2001/01/18 13:44:48 @@ -1005,6 +1005,10 @@ void cpu_idle(void) { +#ifdef SMP + /* first candidate for an interrupt */ + lapic.tpr = 0; +#endif #ifndef SMP if (cpu_idle_hlt) { disable_intr(); ?? No other changes? This is bad news.. This means we have races somewhere, or some other badness. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message