I'm digging through the vnlock's for Stephen Jones, and in
looking at the crash dumps, I'm seeing an interesting code path
being taken..

Notably, the following statement,

	if (flags & LK_TYPE_MASK) {	/* sys/kern/vfs_subr.c:1155 */

is evaluating true, when the surrounding function is called as

	vget (vp=0xfffffc0022eeeeb8, flags=0);

Now, I noticed that SMJ had ``makeoptions COPTS="-O2 -mbwx"''
set in the kernel configuration file..  This triggered a memory
that gcc optimization levels greater than -O1 don't work
reliabily on the alpha.

Is my memory (that optimization levels greater than -O1 don't
work) correct?

	Thanks,
		Eric

[my, what an appropriate auto-selected signature... ]
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