Subject: Re: more closely scoped source changes for the 'hanging' mount
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 04/07/1999 20:34:45
> On Wed, 7 Apr 1999 17:52:01 -0700 (PWT) 
>  Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> wrote:
> 
>  > (another in a list of deletable messages about this particular issue)
>  > 
>  > I started with a working CVS tree tagged as
>  > 
>  > 	D99.03.26.20.00.00
>  > 
>  > (that's 'March 26 1999 20:00 GMT') which does not hang for me and a tree
>  > tagged as
>  > 
>  > 	D99.03.27.04.00.00
>  > 
>  > (that's 'March 27 1999 04:00 GMT') which hangs coming up for me.
> 
> Well, there is one way you can tell if these changes actually cause the
> problem.  The extra arguments to pmap_enter() make no difference if you
> make pmap_enter() ignore them... so you could certainly #if 0 out the
> part that pays attention to access_type, build a kernel, and try it...
> 
> However, since you updated your userland and the problem no longer
> occurs, I guess we'll never know.  *shrug*
> 

No- I still have at least two other machines that have this problem.
I updated mathom.nas.nasa.gov (alphastation 600). I have not updated
brunner.nas.nasa.gov (alpha 4100) nor have I updated nobble.feral.com.
Would you like to take a quick try at checking this on brunner?

-matt