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Date:      Thu, 29 Apr 1999 00:07:51 +0400
From:      Dmitrij Tejblum <tejblum@arc.hq.cti.ru>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        Dmitrij Tejblum <dt@freebsd.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha pmap.c 
Message-ID:  <199904282007.AAA89272@arc.hq.cti.ru>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Apr 1999 20:01:20 BST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904281958590.41254-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> 

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> On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Dmitrij Tejblum wrote:
> 
> > dt          1999/04/28 08:52:11 PDT
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/alpha/alpha      pmap.c 
> >   Log:
> >   pmap_emulate_reference: don't ever lose PV_TABLE_MOD bit on page. If
> >   PV_TABLE_REF cleared before PV_TABLE_MOD, the page may get fault on read again.
> >   
> >   On fault on write, pmap_emulate_reference mark the page dirty with
> >   vm_page_dirty. That decrease ill effects of the bug.
> >   
> >   The problem probably become more serious after my rev.1.18 a week ago.
> 
> Is this connected with the 'pv_table for %x is inconsistent' panic? I
> have seen this a couple of times recently but I haven't managed to debug
> it.

I don't think so: the code in question only touch flags, it doesn't touch 
addresses.

I haven't seen the panic. 

(I just discovered that freshly built kernel panic on boot in
run_interrupt_driven_config_hooks+0x68 due to a memory access fault. :-|
Ideas?)

Dima




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