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Date:      Tue, 09 Jan 2001 09:48:31 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, Robert Lipe <robertlipe@usa.net>
Subject:   Re: kthread_exit & zombification
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010109094831.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10101090445470.88460-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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On 09-Jan-01 Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, John Baldwin wrote:
>> 
>> Unloading modules adds all sorts of new problems.  Right now the WITNESS
>> code
>> will do bad bad things if you kldunload a module that contains a mutex. 
>> Even
>> if the mutex is mtx_destroy'd because it still has a reference to its name
>> in
>> the internal lists it keeps.
>> 
> 
> what?
> I have mutexes in structures I free()..
> I presumed doing a mtx_destroy() would be enough!

It is enough, the witness code is just broken right now.

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