In message <200104240418.NAA27110@dec146.aist-nara.ac.jp>, you write: 

-> > Folks:
-> >   From my quick peek at the MIPS cpu_fork() code, it looks like it
-> >   suffers from the same problems the Alpha and i386 cpu_fork()s did,
-> >   namely that it runs all kthreads at splhigh().
-> >
-> >   Attached is a patch that I believe should fix this.
-> 
-> The issue was spotted by Ethan Solomita, after NetBSD kernel was changed
-> to have kthreads for various purposes, and fixed by me.
-> 
-> From CVS commit log of NetBSD/pmax machdep.c;

Ah, I didn't realize it was done in the port-specific code... I kept 
looking in generic MIPS code.  This explains why I couldn't find it.

My second question is 'why?'.  Why was this done in port-specific code
and not in the general mips code?

Thanks for any clues!
--rafal

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