Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 17:38:32 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, "Tim J. Robbins" <tjr@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_descrip.c Message-ID: <XFMail.20021213173832.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20021213220550.2BB132A8A5@canning.wemm.org>
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On 13-Dec-2002 Peter Wemm wrote: > "Tim J. Robbins" wrote: >> tjr 2002/12/13 01:59:40 PST >> >> Modified files: >> sys/kern kern_descrip.c >> Log: >> Drop filedesc lock and acquire Giant around calls to malloc() and free(). >> These call uma_large_malloc() and uma_large_free() which require Giant. >> Fixes panic when descriptor table is larger than KMEM_ZMAX bytes >> noticed by kkenn. > > What about things like geom which explicitly call malloc without Giant? > Or is it just a problem for large allocations? Just for large allocations which call uma_malloc_large(). -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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