VM wiring fixed

Don Lewis truckman at FreeBSD.org
Thu Apr 29 00:48:48 PDT 2004


On 28 Apr, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:

> * vm_map_{un,}wire() did not keep track of wirings as they should.  User
>   wirings are separate from system wirings, and there can be exactly one.
>   There can be unlimited system wirings, but wired_count will remain at
>   zero for map entries that are allocated as MAP_ENTRY_NOFAULT.

This is something that I started to worry about when I was making my
mlock()/vslock() changes a while back.  I was hoping to find time to
mention my concerns, but I never accumulated enough round tuits.  I'm
really glad to see attention paid to this issue.



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