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. This function is involved in
bringing up the 2nd, 3rd
On 12/17/2011 18:56, Sean Bruno wrote:
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
On 12/19/2011 18:09, Sean Bruno wrote:
On Sat, 2011-12-17 at 18:01 -0800, Colin Percival wrote:
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 larg
On 12/20/2011 07:28, Sean Bruno wrote:
The code that panics shouldn't even exist in the Xen pmap. Try the
attached patch.
Alan
Indeed how on earth did we ever use this stuff? :-)
Tested to 2G on ref9-xen32.f.o should I go any higher?
Sure. Right now, I don't know of any reason
On 12/20/2011 13:57, Sean Bruno wrote:
On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 10:49 -0800, Alan Cox wrote:
On 12/20/2011 07:28, Sean Bruno wrote:
The code that panics shouldn't even exist in the Xen pmap. Try the
attached patch.
Alan
Indeed how on earth did we ever use this stuff? :-)
Tested
On 12/20/2011 14:12, Colin Percival wrote:
On 12/20/11 10:49, Alan Cox wrote:
Do either of you know if there is a PR in gnats for this 768 MB limitation bug
that I should mention in the commit log?
The only one I'm aware of is kern/153789.
Oops. I've already committed the chang
On 12/23/2011 16:25, Sean Bruno wrote:
On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 12:47 -0800, Alan Cox wrote:
Can you please try the attached patch? I'm trying to reduce the number
of differences between the native and Xen pmap implementations.
Alan
Without really looking at the output, I note that
Please try this patch. It eliminates a race condition that might
actually account for some of the crashes in FreeBSD >= 9 on Xen.
Alan
Index: i386/xen/pmap.c
===
--- i386/xen/pmap.c (revision 228935)
+++ i386/xen/pmap.c (w
On 12/29/2011 16:28, Sean Bruno wrote:
On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 12:22 -0800, Alan Cox wrote:
Please try this patch. It eliminates a race condition that might
actually account for some of the crashes in FreeBSD>= 9 on Xen.
Alan
ref10-xen32.freebsd.org has this applied now. Looks ok to
