Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 12:00:47 -0600 (CST) From: bugs@freebsd.netcom.com (Mark Hittinger) To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mlocking an mmap'ped region? (fwd) Message-ID: <199612111800.MAA00824@freebsd.netcom.com>
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> > The following does not seem to work on a 2.2-CURRENT box (built yesterday). > > It does seem to work on SunOS. > > > > Is it just too early to be doing programming or is there really something > > preventing me from doing this? > > > Yep, it is called broken code :-(. That problem was just brought to my > attention yesterday. Unfortunately, someone also wants it fixed in 2.1.X :-(. > > I'll probably get it fixed in -current in the next day or so. Doing mlock > the way that it is currently done is problematical from a couple of viewpoints, > so I think it is going to need to be reworked. Basically, the original > way of doing vm_map_pageable is wrong for userland pages. Isn't this also a big problem on SMP? :-) Later Mark Hittinger Netcom/Dallas bugs@freebsd.netcom.com
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