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Date:      Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:41:41 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet in_pcb.c tcp_subr.c tcp_timer.c tcp_var.h
Message-ID:  <20060912093841.O43498@odysseus.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060912123917.U83151@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <200609061356.k86DuZ0w016069@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060906091204.B6691@odysseus.silby.com> <20060906143204.GQ40020@FreeBSD.org> <20060906093553.L6691@odysseus.silby.com> <20060906150506.GA7069@rambler-co.ru> <20060911005435.A23530@odysseus.silby.com> <20060911142703.GF27667@FreeBSD.org> <20060912001916.S43498@odysseus.silby.com> <20060912002456.I43498@odysseus.silby.com> <20060912123917.U83151@fledge.watson.org>

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On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Robert Watson wrote:

>> Hm, it's been UMA_ZONE_NOFREE since day one.  The reason may or may not be 
>> relevant after all the work rwatson has done with locking.
>
> Unless the monitoring model is changed, this remains 100% necessary, or we 
> may find ourselves performing mutex operations on uninitialized mutexes, 
> corrupting kernel memory, or exporting other kernel data structures 
> improperly to user space.
>
> Robert N M Watson

Ah, doh.  Ok, I'll go revisit the drawing board.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack



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