Subject: Re: Shared libraries re-enabled for VAX
To: Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@lightning.msu.montana.edu>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/03/2007 20:01:59
Michael L. Hitch wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 
>> Also, probably very unrelated. A kernel as built today is not useable. 
>> It goes up to about 100% system time as soon as I copy anything from 
>> an NFS mounted disk to a local disk on my VAX.
>> This is 4.99.16. I have an older build (4.99.15) where this don't 
>> happen, so something changed recently. But like I said, I don't think 
>> that is related to GCC.
> 
>   I think this is related to mutex_spin_{enter,exit), which I am looking 
> at.  I think it also causes the le0 device to not be detected on my 
> 4000/VLC, and probably on the 3100 mentioned in an earlier port-vax 
> message.
> 
>   A work-around may be to build a kernel with LOCKDEBUG.

Hmm. Might try that later. Anyway. The problem is something that 
happened after march 15, since my kernel from march 15 works fine.

	Johnny