Re: I/O permission bitmap patch for oskit-mach

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Marcus Brinkmann <marcus@gnu.org> writes:

> I haven't considered alternatives, like suspending threads.  I am not sure
> if that would work.  I guess that if you do it within the I/O bitmap lock,
> it could be safe, although it seems to me that it is potentially much
> slower than the other approach (not that it would matter much).
> 
> If that approach actually works, we might put it in for the SMP case until
> we have a better solution?

I'm happy to leave it as a documented bug, and not worry about it
until SMP is working.  ("Documented" means somewhere other than
comments in the code and mailing list entries. :)))