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David SchultzNov 10, 2004 7:00 pm 
Scott LongNov 10, 2004 7:15 pm 
Brian Fundakowski FeldmanNov 10, 2004 7:16 pm 
Bruce M SimpsonNov 10, 2004 7:32 pm 
Scott LongNov 10, 2004 7:44 pm 
David SchultzNov 10, 2004 7:56 pm 
Julian ElischerNov 10, 2004 9:59 pm 
Marcel MoolenaarNov 10, 2004 11:53 pm 
John BaldwinNov 11, 2004 9:28 am 
Scott LongNov 11, 2004 4:16 pm 
David SchultzNov 11, 2004 5:01 pm 
Marcel MoolenaarNov 11, 2004 7:51 pm 
Scott LongNov 11, 2004 10:26 pm 
Matthew DillonNov 13, 2004 6:19 pm 
Subject:U Area Removal
From:Marcel Moolenaar (mar@xcllnt.net)
Date:Nov 10, 2004 11:53:20 pm
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-arch

On Nov 10, 2004, at 7:00 PM, David Schultz wrote:

I propose to remove the ability to swap the U area, allocating p_stats from malloced memory instead. Medium-term scheduling and swapping of kernel stacks would be retained. Here are the patches; !i386 testers wanted:

http://www.freebsd.org/~das/patches/upages.diff

I got the following on ia64:

: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0p2 init died (signal 6, exit 0) panic: Going nowhere without my init! KDB: enter: panic [thread 100003] Stopped at kdb_enter+0x81: [F1] nop.f 0x0 db> trace kdb_enter(0xe0000000045e7db8, 0xe00000000428c9d0, 0x896, 0xa000000019f031e8) at kdb_enter+0x81 panic(0xe0000000045e5570, 0x6, 0x0, 0xe00000000737ae50, 0xe000000004521bd0) at panic+0x1c0 exit1(0xe00000003e5fe780, 0x6, 0x4, 0xe0000000046ce100, 0xe0000000046ce100) at exit1+0xd0 kern_execve(0xe00000003e5fe780, 0x9ffffffffffffff2, 0x2, 0xe0000000046cd820, 0x4, 0x2, 0xc, 0xa000000019f032e0) at kern_execve+0x1d40 start_init(0x9fffffffffffffd8, 0x9ffffffffffffff2, 0xe00000000468f0a2, 0xe00000000468f098, 0x9ffffffffffffffd) at start_init+0x7a0 fork_exit(0xe00000000460c640, 0x0, 0xa000000019f03550) at fork_exit+0x120 enter_userland() at enter_userland db>

I have to triage this, but that's not for today (in 7 minutes it will be tomorrow :-)

-- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 mar@xcllnt.net