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Date:      Mon, 12 Jan 1998 21:54:23 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
Cc:        julian@whistle.com, dyson@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: random (?) SIGBUS in -current 
Message-ID:  <1160.884638463@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Jan 1998 15:47:26 EST." <199801122047.PAA00534@dyson.iquest.net> 

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In message <199801122047.PAA00534@dyson.iquest.net>, "John S. Dyson" writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp said:
>> 
>> It looks like some page gets stolen, and the object isn't updated
>> accordingly...
>> 
>> >Note that the new code follows the "rules" fairly precisely regarding the
>> >vnode free list.  Some parts of the system might not be able to deal with
>> >it yet (maybe.)
>> 
>> But this would be related to pages, they die with a pagefault...
>> 
>Vnodes, objects and pages are all intimately related to each other.

Yes, but the program runs part of the way before it dies, so we're
not talking an entire vnode, object, but only a page or two...

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
"Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!"



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