From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 3 23:51:06 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF57716A4B3; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 23:51:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AEE044008; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 23:51:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBE312A7EA; Fri, 3 Oct 2003 23:51:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <200310040630.h946Uu7n058134@repoman.freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 23:51:03 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20031004065103.EBE312A7EA@canning.wemm.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 locore.s X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 06:51:06 -0000 Peter Wemm wrote: > This is bad though because it gives kernel mode code the opportunity > to accidently write to the first few megs of the general page pool > which is remapped at KERNBASE. It needs to be fixed properly. I'm not sure, now that I think about it more, I think Bruce may have tried to tell me about this once or twice before. Possibly when I was tinkering with pmap_mapdev last time. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5