On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Borja Marcos wrote: > Looking at the kernel sources, I see that in /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c, > > --- snip > > /* > * note: PCPU_LAZY_INC() can only be used if we can afford > * occassional inaccuracy in the count. > */ > PCPU_LAZY_INC(cnt.v_syscall); > > --- snip > > This seems to be a macro to update a per-CPU variable. But, AFAIK, there is > *only* one variable now. Is it correct? > > The ia64 version (/usr/src/sys/ia64/ia64) happily updates this variable: > ...
This part is a bug in the ia64 version (in fact, in all non-i386 arches for syscall() and in all arches for many other statistics): PCPU_LAZY_INC() is only deployed for 1 variable on 1 arch so far. (See an earlier reply for how to unbreak the deployed case.) Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
