Re: A question about codes in mdb_flush(...)

Espen Skoglund <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.micro-kernel.l4.l4ka.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[Yan Zheng]
> Hi all.
> In file kernel/src/generic/mapping.cc line 514.

> [...]

> When nmap is null and the test at line 514 returns true, it recurse
> up from subarray.  (I think) this doesn't ensure that it has already
> traversed all nodes of the subarray. (for example, f_map is a child
> of a node in the middle of subarray) Maybe it also needs test rcnt
> equal to zero at line 514 .

I know that there exists some subtle bugs in the old MDB code.  I will
not try to fix these.  From my point of view, usage of the old MDB is
highly deprecated.  Fixing bugs in it is as such something I will not
consider a worthwhile effort.

	eSk
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