On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 11:04:38AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Richard Seaman, Jr. wrote: > > > > > > And when are COMPAT_LINUX_THREADS and VM_STACK going away? > > > > > > I have no idea. I was hoping that at least COMPAT_LINUX_THREADS > > > would go away before the branch. I don't have commit authority, > > > so it isn't up to me. > > > > > > > hmm did you send me the patches? > > No. You said you wanted Peter to do it. I offered to send > patches upon request, but never got a request. :) > > > > > I can certainly do it now..(given a patch set to apply) > > Ok. I'll send it. Do you want VM_STACK out too? yes > > > I just realised however, that if we make them go away we break > > SMP right? > > No. I don't think the patches affect SMP one way or the other. > If someone tries to run kernel threads of any kind (linuxthreads > in emulation, linuxthread in FreeBSD native, any other kernel > threads implementation that uses rfork with RFMEM) rfork will > fail, with or without the patches (unless you apply Luoqi Chen's > pmap patches). > > I see no reason the patches shouldn't work with SMP when rfork > gets fixed, but I haven't tried it. ok send them and I'll commit julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
