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Date:      Wed, 24 May 2006 17:49:02 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   [PATCH] Fixup locking for kernel-linker, needs ndis testing(!)
Message-ID:  <200605241749.02885.jhb@freebsd.org>

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I've reworked the locking for the kernel linker to convert the existing 
kld_mtx to an sx lock and extend it's scope to cover all of the various 
linker-related data structures.  I also changed the kernel linker API a bit 
to make it more amenable to locking in that I added a 'linker_file_foreach' 
that iterates over the list of linker files calling a supplied predicate 
function and made the functions to lookup a linker file by name or index 
private.  This meant that the ndis and hwpmc code had to stop fondling the 
kernel linker internals.  I also made the VFS Giant locking in ndis and the 
kernel linker conditional such that it only locks Giant for non-MPSAFE 
filesystems.

I have runtested this patch a while back, but the ndis and hwpmc parts have 
only been compile tested.  Please test.

http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/kld.patch

-- 
John Baldwin



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