Re: pmap_lazyfix: spun for 50000000

From: Kris Kennaway (kris_at_obsecurity.org)
Date: 02/29/04

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    Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 16:46:10 -0800
To: Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>

    On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 06:43:28PM -0600, Alan Cox wrote:
    > On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 04:35:31PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
    > > bento is running a 5.2-BETA kernel from early December (AFAICR), and
    > > recently logged this on the console:
    > >
    > > pmap_lazyfix: spun for 50000000
    > >
    > > The code in i386/i386/pmap.c doesn't seem to have changed recently.
    > > Is this a bug that has since been fixed?
    > >
    >
    > To the best of my knowledge, it is not evidence of a bug. It is
    > a warning that a deadlock avoidance mechanism kicked in.

    OK, perhaps it should be conditionalized on boot -v or something.

    Kris

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