src/sys/vm/vm_init.c v1.43 hangs amd64

[Doug White]

On Fri, 7 May 2004, Scott Long wrote:

> Doug White wrote:
> > Also if we get into the 5.3 release timeframe we'll have to make a call to
> > ship with a -O2 compiled kernel or not.
> >
>
> Are you proposing dropping -O2 for 5.3 because you are afraid that there
> are other, not-yet-detected broken cases?  I thought that we found a
> source code work-around that forced gcc to generate the correct assembly
> with -O2.  Maybe that should be committed for the time being?

Dropping back to -O is the safer route of the two for sure ... who knows
how many other similar constructions are out there and just happen to not
cause hangs.

I'd just like us to do *something* before 5.3 gets out the door and we
have random amd64 boxes falling over in potentially unrecoverable
scenarios. :)

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