Subject: Re: alloc/free for mclpool
To: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/09/2001 09:26:33
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:31:34AM -0800, Jason R Thorpe wrote:

 > On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 05:32:53PM +0900, Toru Nishimura wrote:
 > 
 >  > NetBSD/alpha and NetBSD/mips (and probably NetBSD/sh3) leave mb_map
 >  > global variable to have NULL.  For such the ports the invocation of
 >  > mclpool_alloc() callback would bring NULL pointer reference in
 >  > uvm_km_kmemalloc().  This is what I experienced with my own
 >  > DECstation kernel.   My Q is the reason why the two pools are managed
 >  > differently and the correct solution for my trouble.
 > 
 > I assume you're running with your new MIPS pmap module.  You should
 > you have:

Sorry, forgot to say "in your pmap.h"...

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>