commit 341f43d: boot: Ignore EINTR.

2016-10-23 Thread Brent W. Baccala
Dear Justus, What are the symptoms of this bug? I've been seeing sporadic behavior where my boot hangs right after "exec" prints in the "Hurd server bootstrap" line. Is this patch related to that? agape brent

Re: [PATCH gnumach] i386: Use discontiguous page directories when using PAE.

2016-10-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Justus Winter, on Sun 23 Oct 2016 11:31:10 +0200, wrote: > Previously, we used contiguous page directories four pages in length > when using PAE. To prevent physical memory fragmentation, we need to > use virtual memory for objects spanning multiple pages. Virtual > kernel memory, however, is a s

[PATCH gnumach] i386: Use discontiguous page directories when using PAE.

2016-10-23 Thread Justus Winter
Previously, we used contiguous page directories four pages in length when using PAE. To prevent physical memory fragmentation, we need to use virtual memory for objects spanning multiple pages. Virtual kernel memory, however, is a scarce commodity. * i386/intel/pmap.h (lin2pdenum): Never include