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Date:      Tue, 24 Apr 2001 11:52:35 -0500
From:      Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vm_mtx
Message-ID:  <20010424115235.I28547@cs.rice.edu>

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> The Mach code we originally inherited was supposed to already by
> multiprocessor safe.  Did we manage to eliminate that capability?

Yes and no.  The vm_map layer still has the necessary locking calls,
but the vm_object and pmap layers don't.  The pmap is still similar
enough that the original locking scheme could be reapplied, perhaps
mechanically.

Alan


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