svn commit: r274017 - head/sys/kern

Alfred Perlstein bright at mu.org
Tue Nov 4 14:22:57 UTC 2014



> On Nov 4, 2014, at 1:25 AM, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 01:45:21PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> Isn't there a problem where the stack can be swapped out?
>> 
>> I seem to recall a problem where a swapped out process was causing 
>> problems due to a buffer passed being stack allocated and that process 
>> being swapped out...
>> 
>> If this is not the case then please disregard.
> 
> Sure, stack can be swapped out, but buffer passing is usually not a problem.
> At least, I am not aware of cases.
> 
> In fact, many compat layers do exactly this, allocate the native-ABI
> structure on the stack, copyin the foreighn-ABI structure in pieces
> into the native-ABI one, and pass native to kern_foo() implementations.
> 
> So I think you worries are not realized.
> 

Ok then as long as system will not pass this buffer as Dma target down to driver we are ok.  


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