[PATCH] Fixup locking for kernel-linker, needs ndis testing(!)
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Wed May 24 14:49:17 PDT 2006
I've reworked the locking for the kernel linker to convert the existing
kld_mtx to an sx lock and extend it's scope to cover all of the various
linker-related data structures. I also changed the kernel linker API a bit
to make it more amenable to locking in that I added a 'linker_file_foreach'
that iterates over the list of linker files calling a supplied predicate
function and made the functions to lookup a linker file by name or index
private. This meant that the ndis and hwpmc code had to stop fondling the
kernel linker internals. I also made the VFS Giant locking in ndis and the
kernel linker conditional such that it only locks Giant for non-MPSAFE
filesystems.
I have runtested this patch a while back, but the ndis and hwpmc parts have
only been compile tested. Please test.
http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/kld.patch
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John Baldwin
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