cvs commit: src/sys/kern sched_ule.c (fwd)
Julian Elischer
julian at elischer.org
Wed Dec 15 14:27:49 PST 2004
Tony Arcieri wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:40:50PM -0500, David Schultz wrote:
>
>
>>On Wed, Dec 15, 2004, Tony Arcieri wrote:
>>
>>
>>>And am I correct that the UMA implementation in RELENG_5 has rendered
>>>proc_fini() obsolete and thus it won't ever be called?
>>>
>>>
>>This has very little to do with either UMA or ULE. Yes, it's
>>unused, but it's still there as a reminder that it *ought* to be
>>used. Unless there are still races I don't know about, it's
>>probably safe to start using it again.
>>
>>
>
>Well, I'm going by the comments and implementation from kern_proc.c in HEAD:
>
>/*
> * UMA should ensure that this function is never called.
> * Freeing a proc structure would violate type stability.
> */
>static void
>proc_fini(void *mem, int size)
>{
>
> panic("proc reclaimed");
>}
>
>The implementation in RELENG_5 invokes a scheduler function which is no
>longer present in HEAD.
>
when we declare teh zone for processes we tell UMA that it must never free
a proc back to system memory. thus the 'fini' routine, that would be called
is a page of that zone were to be returned to the system, should never
be called.
>
>Tony Arcieri
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