I've filed specifically for ZFS: 6735425 some places where 64bit values are being incorrectly accessed on 32bit processors
eric On Aug 6, 2008, at 1:59 PM, Brian D. Horn wrote: > In the most recent code base (both OpenSolaris/Nevada and S10Ux with > patches) > all the known marvell88sx problems have long ago been dealt with. > > However, I've said this before. Solaris on 32-bit platforms has > problems and > is not to be trusted. There are far, far too many places in the > source > code where a 64-bit object is either loaded or stored without any > atomic > locking occurring which could result in any number of wrong and bad > behaviors. > ZFS has some problems of this sort, but so does some of the low > level 32-bit > x86 code. The problem was reported long ago, but to the best of my > knowledge > the issues have not been addressed. Looking below it appears that > nothing > has been done for about 9 months. > > Here is the top of the bug report: > > Bug ID 6634371 > Synopsis Solaris ON is broken w.r.t. 64-bit operations on 32-bit > processors > State 1-Dispatched (Default State) > Category:Subcategory kernel:other > Keywords 32-bit | 64-bit | atomic > Reported Against > Duplicate Of > Introduced In > Commit to Fix > Fixed In > Release Fixed > Related Bugs > Submit Date 27-NOV-2007 > Last Update Date 28-NOV-2007 > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
