On Jul 24, 2005, at 1:08 AM, <ragge@ludd.luth.se> wrote:

>>
>> On Jul 20, 2005, at 7:32 PM, Jason Thorpe wrote:
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>>
>>> So, that would neatly avoid the entire situation.  If I cook up a
>>> patch, would someone be willing to test it?  (I don't have an MP
>>> Alpha system that is in a runnable state, at the moment.)
>>>
>>
>> Attached is a patch against the pmap in -current.  Can someone try it
>> out?
>>
>>
> I tried it on a 2-CPU 8400 system, and the spurious hangings that
> occurred before disappeared, so suddenly the machine got usable :-)

Great.  I will check in that patch probably tonight (I am away from  
my home machines at the moment).  I will also request a pullup to  
netbsd-3-0, and probably to netbsd-2, as well (the patch should apply  
fairly cleanly).

Thanks for testing this, guys!


-- thorpej