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Date:      Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:00:09 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de>
Cc:        pluknet <pluknet@gmail.com>, Michael Butler <imb@protected-networks.net>, Pierre Guinoiseau <geekounet@poildetroll.net>, jhb@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: rebuild all modules on 8.x (was: Re: 'sysctl -a | less' crashes -current)
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904241059060.54334@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904241013560.54334@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <49F12578.4060609@protected-networks.net> <200904241248.16562.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <a31046fc0904232211r3a08647dte616b3ca38cf2c2f@mail.gmail.com> <49F16F9E.40306@poildetroll.net> <20090424104900.579dfa41@ernst.jennejohn.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0904241013560.54334@fledge.watson.org>

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On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Robert Watson wrote:

> I'll add a note to updating, but am confused about why the safety belts we 
> have in place to force module recompiles in this situation haven't done the 
> trick.  Could we be dealing with straggling modules built before that was 
> added, or modules not built with our standard modules build parts?  I've 
> CC'd John since he did the __FreeBSD_version-related changes, which I may 
> simply have misunderstood.

It looks like the logic for constraining supported versions is more liberal 
than I assumed, so I've added a note to UPDATING.  It is good practice to 
rebuild all modules between kernel updates on -CURRENT.

If anyone can reproduce the malloc-related *after* rebuilding all modules, 
please let me know, it could be an indication of a bug in kern_malloc.c.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge



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