Re: PV i386 patch

2011-12-17 Thread Sean Bruno
On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 11:32 -0800, Alan Cox wrote: Is anyone here actively working on fixing problems with SMP support under PV i386? While doing some other maintenance on the vm_page_alloc() callers in the source tree, I happened to take a look at cpu_initialize_context() in mp_machdep.c.

Re: PV i386 patch

2011-12-17 Thread Colin Percival
On 12/17/11 16:56, Sean Bruno wrote: This seems happy on our ref9 VMs. I don't suppose this means I can go above 768M of Ram now? Can't hurt to try... whatever the problem is with our code and large amounts of RAM, the fact that it's an insta-panic during paging setup suggests that it's