Re: pmap_lazyfix: spun for 50000000

From: Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 16:46:10 -0800
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

Received on Sat Feb 28 2004 - 15:46:13 UTC

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