Subject: Re: alloc/free for mclpool
To: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/09/2001 09:26:33
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:31:34AM -0800, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 05:32:53PM +0900, Toru Nishimura wrote:
>
> > NetBSD/alpha and NetBSD/mips (and probably NetBSD/sh3) leave mb_map
> > global variable to have NULL. For such the ports the invocation of
> > mclpool_alloc() callback would bring NULL pointer reference in
> > uvm_km_kmemalloc(). This is what I experienced with my own
> > DECstation kernel. My Q is the reason why the two pools are managed
> > differently and the correct solution for my trouble.
>
> I assume you're running with your new MIPS pmap module. You should
> you have:
Sorry, forgot to say "in your pmap.h"...
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>