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Date:      Tue, 06 Mar 2001 17:22:39 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha pmap.c src/sys/i386/i386 pma
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010306172239.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010306171755.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On 07-Mar-01 John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> On 07-Mar-01 John Baldwin wrote:
>> jhb         2001/03/06 17:04:18 PST
>> 
>>   Modified files:
>>     sys/alpha/alpha      pmap.c 
>>     sys/i386/i386        pmap.c 
>>     sys/ia64/ia64        pmap.c 
>>     sys/vm               vm_page.c pmap.h 
>>   Log:
>>   Back out the pmap_map() change for now, it isn't completely stable on the
>>   i386.
> 
> I was getting some very weird kernel panics on my SMP x86 test box.  Usually
> triggered by staying in vi for "a while".  This still needs to go in in some
> form or another, but the x86 side of it isn't quite all there yet it seems.
> The panics I saw were usually kernel page faults that made no sense.  David
> O`Brien also reported a kernel segment not present panic, so I'm pretty sure
> these changes are the guilty ones. :-/

Well, David's panic was a red herring, he hadn't updated to this code yet, so
AFAIK I'm the only one with weird panics with this code.  FWIW, I didn't have
problems on my UP laptop, but my SMP testbox was the one blowing up.

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