testing new pmap code

Alan Cox alc at rice.edu
Wed Jul 23 20:36:57 UTC 2014


On Jul 23, 2014, at 1:47 PM, John-Mark Gurney wrote:

> Alan Cox wrote this message on Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:27 -0500:
>> About a week ago I committed some new pmap code on all architectures,
>> including arm.  However, that code isn't "active" until the attached
>> patch is committed.  Before I commit this patch, I'd like to ask people
>> to test it on arm "classic" and especially v6.  (The v6 pmap changes
>> were more complicated.)
> 
> Tested on AVILA...  W/o the kernel patch the machine froze after only
> a few loops...  I will admit that the kernel that froze was old code
> from a couple months ago...
> 
> w/ the patch (and a current HEAD), it's stable and has looped many more
> times than the previous kernel...
> 
> Tested w/ the patch:
> FreeBSD avila.funkthat.com 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #30 r269019M: Wed Jul 23 11:17:28 PDT 2014     jmg at carbon.funkthat.com:/usr/obj/arm.armeb/usr/src.avila/sys/AVILA  arm
> 

Thank you for the quick response.

Alan



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