Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 08:07:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mbendiks@eunet.no (Marius Bendiksen) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how mmap buffer writes handled? Message-ID: <200009200807.BAA27583@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10009200924320.30277-100000@login-1.eunet.no> from "Marius Bendiksen" at Sep 20, 2000 09:26:10 AM
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> > Actually, not. It's on the order of the F00F bug fix, which is > > a gross kludge of the worst sort. The page being written doesn't > > Agree. Might there not be some cleaner way of resolving the F00F bug ? > ISTR having looked into this some time back. Yeah, there's actually a great fix: replace the faulty chip. > > exist. It's a non-existance exception, not an access exception, > > since if the page mapping existed, it wouldn't result in the > > exception in the first place. 8-). > > I did not specify "access" as a qualifier to "exception". But you did say "[...]when accessing the page for write". You can't access a non-existant page, only an existant one. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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