svn commit: r240475 - in head/sys: dev/hwpmc kern

Attilio Rao attilio at freebsd.org
Fri Sep 14 13:42:51 UTC 2012


On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Konstantin Belousov
<kostikbel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 01:03:13PM +0100, Attilio Rao wrote:
>> On 9/14/12, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:26:22PM +0000, Attilio Rao wrote:
>> >> Author: attilio
>> >> Date: Thu Sep 13 22:26:22 2012
>> >> New Revision: 240475
>> >> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/240475
>> >>
>> >> Log:
>> >>   Remove all the checks on curthread != NULL with the exception of some
>> >> MD
>> >>   trap checks (eg. printtrap()).
>> >>
>> >>   Generally this check is not needed anymore, as there is not a
>> >> legitimate
>> >>   case where curthread != NULL, after pcpu 0 area has been properly
>> >>   initialized.
>> > I do not disagree with the patch, but I do with this statement.
>> > During the AP startup, there is indeed a window while curthread is NULL.
>> > Unfortunately, trying to panic there is worse then not panic.
>>
>> Yes and why do you disagree then? That is what I wanted to say --
>> before pcpu->curthread is initialized you can get curthread == NULL.
>
> I disagree with the statement that curthread is always non-NULL after pcpu 0
> area has been initialized.

Ah, I understand what you mean, the "0" part is wrong really, it is
any pcpu area infact.

Thanks,
Attilio


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