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From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Subject: Re: Possible race in i386/i386/pmap.c:pmap_copy()
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On 25-Aug-01 Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> wouldn't Giant be protecting this?

Not if the code blocks.  Giant is released in tsleep().

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