Fw: FreeBSD 9.0 16kb Page Size

[Timothy Macintyre]

Hi,

I originally asked this on freebsd-questions (below) and was forwarded here. I have tried updating the page size of the latest release (10) and the kernel still crashes, I imagine I'm missing something like an invalid struct size but not sure where. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

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From: Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de>
Sent: 19 March 2016 12:27
To: Timothy Macintyre
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.0 16kb Page Size

On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 11:11:17 +0000, Timothy Macintyre wrote:
> I'm trying to do some testing on FreeBSD 9.0 with the page size
> set to 16kb on amd64 but I'm having trouble building a stable kernel.
>
> I've changed the PAGE_SHIFT to 14 under param.h and also updated
> pmap.h/c with the following values so it doesn't complain about
> invalid struct sizes at compile but I'm getting a crash after
> install and reboot. Is there something I'm missing here?
>
>
> #define _NPCM 12
> #define _NPCPV 677

You should probably repeat that experiment with a currently
supported code base. FreeBSD 9.0 is already EOL. The best
idea would be to use the FreeBSD 10.2 release (amd64) and
make the required changes.

In case you have a valid reason not to use FreeBSD 10, but
instead need to keep FreeBSD 9, try the most current release,
which is FreeBSD 9.3. Remember: it's a legacy release, not a
production release.

If you have done this and you're still experiencing problems,
write to the freebsd-hackers@ mailing list, which is primarily
intended for higher-level "Technical Discussions relating to
FreeBSD", as freebsd-questions@ is mostly a users' question
list (less technical, often focused on "easy" problems).
Messing with the bowels of the kernel's memory management
isn't a typical "user question". ;-)




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