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Date:      Thu, 7 Nov 2002 10:40:53 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk>
To:        David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 exception.s genassym.c trap.c vm86.c         vm86bios.s src/sys/i386/include pcb.h vm86.h
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0211071038010.8645-100000@ury.york.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200211070134.gA71YNn0045906@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, David Xu wrote:
>   Log:
>   1.Fix smp race between kernel vm86 BIOS calling and userland vm86 mode code,
>     remove global variable in_vm86call, set vm86 calling flag in PCB flags.
>
>   2.Fix vm86 BIOS calling preempted problem by changing vm86_lock mutex type
>     from MTX_DEF to MTX_SPIN. vm86pcb is not remembered in thread struct,
>     when the thread calling vm86 BIOS is preempted by interrupt thread,
>     and later switching back to the thread would cause incorrect context be
>     loaded into CPU registers, this leads to kernel crash.

Thankyou! Thankyou!

Which of your patches did you go for in the end? I have been using
http://people.freebsd.org/~davidxu/vm86.diff for over a month without
problem.

Gavin


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