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Date:      Thu, 21 Feb 2002 00:51:48 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: cvs commit: src/sys/kern sys_process.c
Message-ID:  <XFMail.020221005148.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200202210437.g1L4btc69989@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On 21-Feb-02 Bruce Evans wrote:
> bde         2002/02/20 20:37:55 PST
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/kern             sys_process.c 
>   Log:
>   Recover bits that were lost in transition in rev.1.76:
>   - P_INMEM checks in all the functions.  P_INMEM must be checked because
>     PHOLD() is broken.  The old bits had bogus locking (using sched_lock)
>     to lock P_INMEM.  After removing the P_INMEM checks, we were left with
>     just the bogus locking.
>   - large comments.  They were too large, but better than nothing.

I would much prefer that we fix phold/prele rather than do the bogus PS_INMEM
checks if possible.

>   Remove obfuscations that were gained in transition in rev.1.76:
>   - PROC_REG_ACTION() is even more of an obfuscation than PROC_ACTION().
>   
>   The change copies procfs_machdep.c rev.1.22 of i386/procfs_machdep.c
>   verbatim except for "fixing" the old-style function headers and adjusting
>   function names and comments.  It doesn't remove the bogus locking.
>   
>   Approved by:    des
>   
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.80      +77 -16    src/sys/kern/sys_process.c

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