svn commit: r193030 - in head: share/man/man9 sys/kern sys/net sys/security/mac sys/sys

[Robert Watson]

On Fri, 29 May 2009, Attilio Rao wrote:

>>  Make the rmlock(9) interface a bit more like the rwlock(9) interface:
>>
>>  - Add rm_init_flags() and accept extended options only for that variation.
>>  - Add a flags space specifically for rm_init_flags(), rather than borrowing
>>    the lock_init() flag space.
>>  - Define flag RM_RECURSE to use instead of LO_RECURSABLE.
>>  - Define flag RM_NOWITNESS to allow an rmlock to be exempt from WITNESS
>>    checking; this wasn't possible previously as rm_init() always passed
>>    LO_WITNESS when initializing an rmlock's struct lock.
>>  - Add RM_SYSINIT_FLAGS().
>>  - Rename embedded mutex in rmlocks to make it more obvious what it is.
>>  - Update consumers.
>>  - Update man page.
>
> Thanks!

There's quite a bit more to be done with rmlocks -- among other things, lock 
assertion support is quite incomplete, and it needs to integrate with WITNESS 
better.  I probably don't have time to work on this, but perhaps for someone 
with a bit more experience with our locking primitives it would prove straight 
forward? :-)

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge