Re: Patch to try (was Re: Wierd AMD panics caused by VMWare?)

2000-02-25 Thread Bruce Evans
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Please try the following patch and tell me if the crashes still occur. > If this fixes the problem then I'm homing in on the bug. It seems to work here. > I am beginning to suspect that there is a case where a pmap can get > cleared w

Patch to try (was Re: Wierd AMD panics caused by VMWare?)

2000-02-24 Thread David Gilbert
> "Matthew" == Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthew> Please try the following patch and tell me if the crashes Matthew> still occur. If this fixes the problem then I'm homing in on Matthew> the bug. Matthew> I am beginning to suspect that there is a case where a Matthe

Re: Patch to try (was Re: Wierd AMD panics caused by VMWare?)

2000-02-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
:This would explain why messing with the pmap_remove_all() case does :not do what we expect -- I suspect that routine is not being called :at all in certain cases. : :I have not found the case where the pmap gets cleared without being :flushed yet but when I force the flush in

Patch to try (was Re: Wierd AMD panics caused by VMWare?)

2000-02-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
Please try the following patch and tell me if the crashes still occur. If this fixes the problem then I'm homing in on the bug. I am beginning to suspect that there is a case where a pmap can get cleared without the tlb being flushed, causing origpte to be 0 when the new pte i