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Date:      Tue, 23 May 2006 23:50:13 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        John Birrell <jb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: PERFORCE change 97634 for review
Message-ID:  <200605232350.14614.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200605222015.k4MKFVIH004583@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200605222015.k4MKFVIH004583@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Monday 22 May 2006 16:15, John Birrell wrote:
> http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=97634
> 
> Change 97634 by jb@jb_freebsd2 on 2006/05/22 20:15:14
> 
> 	Change the kernel linker to use an sx lock instead of a mutex so that
> 	DTrace can list all linker files while holding the lock and still be
> 	able to malloc with wait to create probes.
> 	
> 	Add a function to list the function names and their values. This function
> 	assumes that the lock is held while listing the files, so no additional
> 	locking is attempted.

I need to give you my kernel linker locking patch to avoid future pain.  It
fixes the kernel linker lock to actually protect all of the linker and adds
a foreach-style function to call a handler on each linker_file_t.  I haven't
committed it yet as it needs testing with ndis.  Maybe I will post it to
current@ tomorrow.

-- 
John Baldwin



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