From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Oct 10 18: 6:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55E1237B503 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 18:06:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA09702; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:06:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.0/8.9.1) id e9B16VX71539; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:06:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:06:31 -0400 (EDT) To: jdp@polstra.com Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can read return MORE than you asked for? In-Reply-To: <200010110102.e9B12d437311@vashon.polstra.com> References: <14819.36145.726782.115049@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200010110102.e9B12d437311@vashon.polstra.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14819.48292.278569.728210@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org jdp@polstra.com writes: > > Note the return value of read -- 2x what we asked for! > > Ah, but you're on an Alpha, where everything is twice as big. :-) Heh.. ;) But I think I fixed it -- the world is getting safer for serial consoles.. -- spewing that crap takes for-ever on a serial console! gallatin 2000/10/10 18:01:54 PDT Modified files: sys/alpha/alpha mem.c Log: kmem transfers were being double-counted due to a missing continue. This silences the dreaded "swapinfo:cannot read blmeta_t" messages at boot. I'm really suprised there were no PRs open about this... Revision Changes Path 1.32 +2 -1 src/sys/alpha/alpha/mem.c Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message