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Date:      Fri, 10 May 2002 22:40:40 -0500
From:      Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
Subject:   Re: gcc3 & alpha kernels
Message-ID:  <20020511034040.GA2412@cs.rice.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20020510204837.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <15580.13914.162169.930227@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <XFMail.20020510204837.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 08:48:37PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> ... I suggest that all the atomic
> ops buried in the vm code be checked very carefully for these types of
> short/int mismatches as well as any int/long mismatches and the like.
> 

In the MI parts of the vm, outside of _vm_object_allocate(),
there is only one other use of atomic ops and that simply
adds 1 to an u_int.  The rest were removed when Giant was
introduced.

Alan


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