Subject: Re: Shared libraries re-enabled for VAX
To: Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@lightning.msu.montana.edu>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/03/2007 20:01:59
Michael L. Hitch wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>
>> Also, probably very unrelated. A kernel as built today is not useable.
>> It goes up to about 100% system time as soon as I copy anything from
>> an NFS mounted disk to a local disk on my VAX.
>> This is 4.99.16. I have an older build (4.99.15) where this don't
>> happen, so something changed recently. But like I said, I don't think
>> that is related to GCC.
>
> I think this is related to mutex_spin_{enter,exit), which I am looking
> at. I think it also causes the le0 device to not be detected on my
> 4000/VLC, and probably on the 3100 mentioned in an earlier port-vax
> message.
>
> A work-around may be to build a kernel with LOCKDEBUG.
Hmm. Might try that later. Anyway. The problem is something that
happened after march 15, since my kernel from march 15 works fine.
Johnny