Subject: Re: Important: MIPS pmap changes, hopefully for 1.4
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
List: port-mips
Date: 04/22/1999 10:09:42
Jason Thorpe wrote:
> Hi folks...
>
> So, I decided I was tired of being flamed by Jonathan for "breaking" the
> MIPS pmap (when in fact it was doing things w/ the upper-level VM data
> structures that it should not have been) by saying that frobbing PG_CLEAN
> was wrong...
>
> So, on the train home last night and to work this morning, I implemented
> real modified/referenced emulation for the MIPS pmap. This should address
> e.g. the MFS problems. Side note, I'm actually surprised it worked at
> all, looked like there were lots of cases with "modified" info would just
> be thrown away.
>
> Anyhow, unfortunately, I can't test it just yet (or even compile it)
> because I need to get my DECstation 5000/200 running again (network
> connectivity issues, swap out flaky RAM board, get it updated to a
> current snapshot).
>
> This means that I am going to need help with this.
>
> If any of you can test a source-level patch (and make it compile if
> it doesn't :-) on R3000 and/or R4000 systems, please get in touch with
> me ASAP.
Throw it at me :-) I've got both r3k and r4k systems set up for 1.4
testing.
Simon.