Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 08:35:14 +0100 (CET) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm) Cc: jhb@FreeBSD.ORG (John Baldwin), bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), current@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, rjesup@wgate.com Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: await/asleep removal imminent Message-ID: <200101190735.IAA60706@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <200101190701.f0J71Bk09591@mobile.wemm.org> from Peter Wemm at "Jan 18, 2001 11:01:11 pm"
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It seems Peter Wemm wrote: > Soren Schmidt wrote: > > It seems Peter Wemm wrote: > > > > > > Soren, can you retest a buildworld with the currently committed kernel > > > with no other changes? Let us see if the forward_signal() stuff is the > > > culprit, and if not, try adding just the i386/i386/machdep.c patch to HLT > > > the idle CPU. (if *that* makes a difference then we have got trouble!) > > > > It seems that the HLT thing is exactly the patch that makes it work! > > > > So we have trouble, I said that all along .5 :) > > So, the difference between -current working for you or not is this: [diff snipped] > ?? No other changes? I need the FULL change to machdep.c and apparently the chagne to subr_prf.c is needed too, at least it hasnt broke yet with that in place too, not that I can see why it matters though. The new diff to machdep.c that jhb made yesterday also causes trouble. > This is bad news.. This means we have races somewhere, or some other badness. That is what I've been harping about for months... What strikes me here as a very serious problem is that the SMPng developers has told me over and over that it works fine for them on -current, but when we get to the matter after months of frustration, it suddenly appears that they are not running the same -current as the rest of us. Now guys, excuse my language, but that *sucks* bigtime. However I'm still running tests here, and I'm offering to test every patch you can come up with to help locate the problem, just as always... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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