From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 29 23:05:45 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C123416A403 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:05:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marius.nuennerich@gmx.net) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F5CE13C459 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:05:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marius.nuennerich@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 29 Dec 2006 22:39:04 -0000 Received: from dslb-084-061-204-067.pools.arcor-ip.net (EHLO sol.hackerzberg.local) [84.61.204.67] by mail.gmx.net (mp045) with SMTP; 29 Dec 2006 23:39:04 +0100 X-Authenticated: #5707313 Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:39:04 +0100 From: Marius Nuennerich To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20061229233904.1b90ba62@sol.hackerzberg.local> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Subject: GEOM_AES using malloc with M_WAITOK X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:05:45 -0000 Hi List, I'm new to geom and thought I'd take an easy class to learn. So I read geom_aes.c and noticed that it uses the M_WAITOK flag with g_malloc. In another place I read, that it is not OK to sleep in the g_up and g_down threads. Isn't this g_malloc called in one of these threads? Yes, I know that geom_aes is more for educational purpose. But then it should be right even more. regards Marius