nd6_timer vs Giant vs locking in general
Mateusz Guzik
mjguzik at gmail.com
Fri Oct 24 05:27:01 UTC 2014
Hello there,
dtrace revealed that the kernel schedules nd6_timer a lot. Not only
that, his callout is not mpsafe so the kernel locks Giant which I
believe is an oversight.
Also the code looks really suspicious as it walks V_in6_ifaddrhead
without any locking (not to mention there is an interestng comment:
XXXRW: in6_ifaddrhead locking :>)
Dropping it here in case there is someone interested in fixing this up.
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Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik gmail.com>
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