Re: nvidia-driver 195.22 use horribly broken on amd64 between r206173 and

From: Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:30:03 +0200
On 14-06-2010 14:48, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Sunday 13 June 2010 11:23:07 pm Doug Barton wrote:
>> On 06/13/10 19:09, Alan Cox wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Doug Barton<dougb_at_freebsd.org>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 06/01/10 08:26, John Baldwin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I've asked the driver author if the calls to vm_page_wire() and
>>>>> vm_page_unwire() can simply be removed but have not heard back yet.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is there any news on this? I have updated to the latest current so I'm
>>>> running the nv driver now, but I'd like to get the nvidia driver running
>>>> again.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Yes, the unnecessary (and now problematic) wiring and unwiring calls will 
> be
>>> removed in a future release of the driver.
>>
>> Excellent! Any ETA? Or are there patches against an existing version of 
>> the driver?
> 
> I would just remove the calls to vm_page_wire() and vm_page_unwire() along 
> with the immediately adjacent calls to vm_page_{un,}lock_queues().
> 
Just to confirm, like the attached patch?

This is with a GeForce GT 240M, current/amd64 r209035, nvidia-driver
195.36.15

I haven't runtime-tested it yet...

Rene
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