cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_subr.c
Don Lewis
truckman at FreeBSD.org
Tue Oct 12 15:20:58 PDT 2004
On 12 Oct, Don Lewis wrote:
> On 12 Oct, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> I like this, my only concern is that there may be places that
>> call this with locks held but with the kernel/user buffer wired
>> so that it can't fault.
>>
>> Are you sure this isn't the case? (specifically for some sysctls)
>
> There are a number of sysctl handlers where I added code to wire the
> buffer so that there was no danger of sleeping while a mutex is held.
> Allocating a kernel buffer and doing an extra copy would be ugly.
Oh, nevermind. The sysctl handlers use copyout(), not uiomove(). Doing
Adding WITNESS_WARN() to uiomove() is probably a good thing.
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