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Date:      Fri, 25 Feb 2000 07:50:49 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Wierd AMD panics caused by VMWare?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002250740030.7691-100000@alphplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <200002232043.MAA31642@apollo.backplane.com>

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On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote:

[I wrote]
> :See PR 16568.  pmap_remove_all() doesn't flush the TLB properly in
> :FreeBSD-3.x on i386's.  Somehow this doesn't cause many problems, but
> :it fairly reliably breaks the free() in fdfree() when there was a file
> :descriptor larger than about 1000 (this gives a free() of more than
> :MAXALLOCSAVE = 2 pages) when there is a lot of fork() activity.

>     Ahh.  I presume you will commit this patch now that Bjoern has
>     confirmed that it works?

Not until the reason that it works is understood.

>     I don't know why an unconditional invltlb() didn't work either,
>     it should have.  Maybe the __asm macro is being optimized out.

I verified that the unconditional invtlb() doesn't work.  Better yet,
replacing the invltlb_1pg() in the loop doesn't work.  I think this
means that we've changed the page tables too early for a page elsewhere.

Bruce



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