book on parallel programming

2010-03-29 Thread Sergey Babkin
Hi all, For everyone who asked about my book "The Practice of Parallel Programming" being printed, I've got it self-published through CreateSpace: https://www.createspace.com/3438465 They say it should get to Amazon too, in 3 weeks or so. The discount code RYM7VM5Q gives $14 off the list price a

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 02:27:34PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Monday 29 March 2010 1:30:38 pm Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 05:01:02PM +, Masoom Shaikh wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: > > > > On 28 March 2010 16:42, Masoom Shaikh wrote

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-29 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 29 March 2010 1:30:38 pm Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 05:01:02PM +, Masoom Shaikh wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: > > > On 28 March 2010 16:42, Masoom Shaikh wrote: > > > > > >> lets assume if this is h/w problem, then how can other

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-29 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 05:01:02PM +, Masoom Shaikh wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: > > On 28 March 2010 16:42, Masoom Shaikh wrote: > > > >> lets assume if this is h/w problem, then how can other OSes overcome > >> this ? is there a way to make FreeBSD ignore this

virtual memory question

2010-03-29 Thread Dr. Baud
Should I be able to recover the physical address of a memory region allocated by configmalloc in a kernel module and mapped to a virtual address by a user application? Dr ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-29 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 28 March 2010 16:42, Masoom Shaikh wrote: > >> lets assume if this is h/w problem, then how can other OSes overcome >> this ? is there a way to make FreeBSD ignore this as well, let it >> result in reasonable performance penalty. > > Very pr

Re: periodically save current time to time-of-day hardware

2010-03-29 Thread John Baldwin
On Sunday 28 March 2010 7:45:25 am Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Peter Jeremy writes: > > A new kthread which sleeps on channel "update_rtc". When woken, it > > checks to see if it's within (say) 50msec of a second boundary and so, > > it does a trylock on the (new) RTC mutex. If it grabs the mut

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-29 Thread John Baldwin
On Sunday 28 March 2010 4:28:29 am Masoom Shaikh wrote: > Hello List, > > I was a happy FreeBSD user, just before I installed FreeBSD8.0-RC1. Since > then, system randomly just freezes, and there is no option other than hard > boot. I guessed this will get solved in 8.0-RELEASE, but it was not :(

Re: Problems understanding this piece of code...

2010-03-29 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:06:49 -0400 Sergio Andr__s G__mez del Real wrote: > Hi. > I can't seem to understand this piece of i386 boot code: > What I understand is that BIOS loads MBR at 0x7c00, then jumps to the > code there, code that relocates itself to and jumps to 0x600, but what > does movw $m