CURRENT unusable again, too many panics

Martin Blapp mb at imp.ch
Sun Oct 1 13:37:22 PDT 2006


> Can you tell me what if anything is printed with the attached patch applied?
>

Hi,

>  MFC
>    Correct a very old and very obscure bug: vmspace_fork() calls
>    pmap_copy() if the mapping is VM_INHERIT_SHARE.  Suppose the mapping
>    is also wired.  vmspace_fork() clears the wiring attributes in the vm
>    map entry but pmap_copy() copies the PG_W attribute in the PTE.  I
>    don't think this is catastrophic.  It blocks pmap_remove_pages() from
>    destroying the mapping and corrupts the pmap's wiring count.

With or without this MFC applied ?

Martin


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