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Date:      Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:16:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
To:        alfred@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        jhb@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_subr.c
Message-ID:  <200410122217.i9CMGuoY073261@gw.catspoiler.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041012215157.GP38364@elvis.mu.org>

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On 12 Oct, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> I like this, my only concern is that there may be places that
> call this with locks held but with the kernel/user buffer wired
> so that it can't fault.
> 
> Are you sure this isn't the case?  (specifically for some sysctls)

There are a number of sysctl handlers where I added code to wire the
buffer so that there was no danger of sleeping while a mutex is held.
Allocating a kernel buffer and doing an extra copy would be ugly.

> * John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> [041012 11:27] wrote:
>> jhb         2004-10-12 18:27:14 UTC
>> 
>>   FreeBSD src repository
>> 
>>   Modified files:
>>     sys/kern             kern_subr.c 
>>   Log:
>>   Add a WITNESS_WARN() to uiomove() to whine if locks are held when this
>>   function is called.
>>   
>>   MFC after:      1 month
>>   
>>   Revision  Changes    Path
>>   1.89      +2 -0      src/sys/kern/kern_subr.c
> 



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