Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 10:53:24 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Brian McGovern <bmcgover@cisco.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stomp the bug!!!! (Was cyclades bug) Message-ID: <199702061853.KAA18091@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Feb 1997 09:18:22 EST." <199702061418.JAA01590@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com>
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>David, > One last thought. (BTW, I'm assuming you'll commit the change I sent >in... If not, let me know :) ). Sorry, yes, I committed it seconds after you told me about it. :-) > If we tinkered with locore.s and pmap.c to >remove the PG_N (?) flag to try to fix this problem, would there be any >reason not to put them back in assuming they would a.) improve performance >someplace, and b.) not cause additional problems down the road? Again, just >a thought... Yes, the problem other people were having with occasional panics is apparantly unrelated to the bug you found in the initialization code. It is still believed that removing PG_N fixes that problem. There should be no difference in performance in any case. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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