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diff --git a/contributing.mdwn b/contributing.mdwn index a1621022..76b550e2 100644 --- a/contributing.mdwn +++ b/contributing.mdwn @@ -178,10 +178,9 @@ This is the list of tasks that we *want* to address soon, starting with the most * Prevent duplicate instances of `rumpdisk` from competing for the disk PCI cards (e.g. when a second one gets started from a chroot), otherwise mayhem happens. * Fix the memory consumption of `rumpdisk`. * Plug acpi shutdown event. -* Add overcommit limitation support to gnumach (`RLIMIT_AS`): limit the virtual size of processes to half of the memory + swap size. Unless `MAP_NORESERVE` is passed to `mmap`. +* Check that `MAP_NORESERVE` passed to `mmap` avoids the overcommit limitation recently introduced in gnumach (`RLIMIT_AS`) * Fix `tmpfs` losing files, see [discussion](https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2015-02/msg00091.html). * Port `libasan`/`lsan`/`ubsan`/`libtasn` so we can use these sanitizers (youpi did some of it, pending clean/submit). -* Finish moving `pthread_` symbols from `libpthread` to `libc`, see for instance [some moves](https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2023-March/146425.html), synchronize with Guy-Fleury Iteriteka. * Rewrite `pthread_cond_*`, `pthread_rwlock_*`, `pthread_barrier_*` to use `gsync`, like `pthread_mutex_*` do (also see the nptl implementations, possibly just share with them). * Improve rumpdisk's asynchronism, see end of `hurd/rumpdisk/block-rump.c`. * Check performance of `rumpdisk` against the in-`gnumach` drivers. |