cvs commit: src/sys/netinet in_pcb.c tcp_subr.c tcp_timer.c tcp_var.h

Mike Silbersack silby at silby.com
Tue Sep 12 07:41:14 PDT 2006


On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Robert Watson wrote:

>> Hm, it's been UMA_ZONE_NOFREE since day one.  The reason may or may not be 
>> relevant after all the work rwatson has done with locking.
>
> Unless the monitoring model is changed, this remains 100% necessary, or we 
> may find ourselves performing mutex operations on uninitialized mutexes, 
> corrupting kernel memory, or exporting other kernel data structures 
> improperly to user space.
>
> Robert N M Watson

Ah, doh.  Ok, I'll go revisit the drawing board.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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