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Date:      Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:24:08 +0300 (MSK)
From:      Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@freebsd.org>, so@freebsd.org
Cc:        cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm vm_map.c vm_map.h
Message-ID:  <20040312132305.E83425@woozle.rinet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200403120024.i2C0Ou3n075918@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200403120024.i2C0Ou3n075918@repoman.freebsd.org>

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Dear Peter,

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Peter Wemm wrote:

PW> peter       2004/03/11 16:24:56 PST
PW>
PW>   FreeBSD src repository
PW>
PW>   Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_4)
PW>     sys/vm               vm_map.c vm_map.h
PW>   Log:
PW>   MFC: part of vm_map.h rev 1.68 and vm_map.c 1.212.  This is actually
PW>   a prequisite of the vm_map.c rev 1.280 that dillon prematurely MFC'ed
PW>   on Jan 13th, 2003.  Without this change, the kernel leaks vmspaces
PW>   to varying degrees depending on the circumstances.  Specifically,
PW>   vm_exitingcnt was being copied from the parent to the child when it
PW>   might have been non-zero.  This caused the child's vm_exitingcnt to
PW>   never hit zero.  This was blowing up machines at work.

Isn't it a good candidate for SO (RELENG_4_[89]) backporting?

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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