cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_fork.c
John Baldwin
jhb at FreeBSD.org
Mon Oct 4 08:21:44 PDT 2004
On Friday 01 October 2004 01:01 am, David Schultz wrote:
> das 2004-10-01 05:01:29 UTC
>
> FreeBSD src repository
>
> Modified files:
> sys/kern kern_fork.c
> Log:
> Avoid calling _PHOLD(p1) with p2's lock held, since _PHOLD()
> may block to swap in p1. Instead, call _PHOLD earlier, at a
> point where the only lock held happens to be p1's.
FWIW, I don't think this can actually happen because curthread belonging to p1
is executing and it wouldn't be executing unless it was swapped in, so I
don't think that PHOLD could ever have blocked.
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