From owner-cvs-all Thu Aug 6 01:46:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA26197 for cvs-all-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 01:46:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA26179; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 01:46:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA29833; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 09:45:35 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 09:45:35 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: John Birrell cc: Doug Rabson , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_bio.c vfs_cluster.c src/sys/vm vm_fault.c vm_map.c vm_object.c vm_object.h vm_pageout.c In-Reply-To: <199808060843.SAA00314@cimlogic.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, John Birrell wrote: > Doug Rabson wrote: > > dfr 1998/08/06 01:33:19 PDT > > > > Modified files: > > sys/kern vfs_bio.c vfs_cluster.c > > sys/vm vm_fault.c vm_map.c vm_object.c > > vm_object.h vm_pageout.c > > Log: > > Protect all modifications to paging_in_progress with splvm(). The i386 > > managed to avoid corruption of this variable by luck (the compiler used a > > memory read-modify-write instruction which wasn't interruptable) but other > > architectures cannot. > > > > With this change, I am now able to 'make buildworld' on the alpha (sfx: the > > crowd goes wild...) > > Support for AXPpci33? I'm still waiting for my hardware :-(. I spoke to them again yesterday so maybe next week... -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039