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Date:      Thu, 6 Aug 1998 09:45:35 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
Cc:        Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_bio.c vfs_cluster.c src/sys/vm    vm_fault.c vm_map.c vm_object.c vm_object.h vm_pageout.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.01.9808060944540.27318-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <199808060843.SAA00314@cimlogic.com.au>

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On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, John Birrell wrote:

> Doug Rabson wrote:
> > dfr         1998/08/06 01:33:19 PDT
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/kern             vfs_bio.c vfs_cluster.c 
> >     sys/vm               vm_fault.c vm_map.c vm_object.c 
> >                          vm_object.h vm_pageout.c 
> >   Log:
> >   Protect all modifications to paging_in_progress with splvm().  The i386
> >   managed to avoid corruption of this variable by luck (the compiler used a
> >   memory read-modify-write instruction which wasn't interruptable) but other
> >   architectures cannot.
> >   
> >   With this change, I am now able to 'make buildworld' on the alpha (sfx: the
> >   crowd goes wild...)
> 
> Support for AXPpci33?

I'm still waiting for my hardware :-(.  I spoke to them again yesterday so
maybe next week...

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