On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 04:17:37PM -0500, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> > thorpej@nas.nasa.gov writes:
> > >UH.....
> > >pmap_zero_page() and pmap_copy_page() should be going to splimp()!!
> > is this a new requirement?   who is calling these from an interrupt?
> kernel memory allocators?

i believe that most of those allocators call memset() directly.

however, it might be possible that if an interrupt routine 
touches a zero-fill area of memory [triggering a page fault?]
that has no page associated with it then pmap_zero_page could 
get called through uvm_km_get?   [if so, that would be bad since
curproc may very well be null and sometimes the fault routine
likes to sleep]

chuck