From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 24 22:16:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.butya.kz (butya-gw.butya.kz [212.154.129.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ABED37B7FA for ; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 22:16:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bp@butya.kz) Received: from bp (helo=localhost) by relay.butya.kz with local-esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12jxgY-00031w-00; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 12:14:58 +0700 Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 12:14:58 +0700 (ALMST) From: Boris Popov To: Bruce Evans Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" , "Jacques A . Vidrine" , Richard Wackerbarth , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Bruce Evans wrote: > > Given that this is a change in splxxx() I suspect that it breaks > > most modules, but probably not all modules. A quick grep -l spl * | wc > > Given that this is a change in the splxxx() implementation, it breaks > zero modules. > > splxxx() was changed from an inline function to an ordinary function > when SMP development started, to give the same ABI for the SMP case as > for the non-SMP case. This gives the same ABI for different SMP > implementations as a side effect. simple_lock* functions has breakage too. They defined as macros for non-SMP case and as functions for SMP. -- Boris Popov To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message