Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:32:27 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: random as module needs work Message-ID: <XFMail.010313143227.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <15022.32661.564910.735073@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On 13-Mar-01 Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> Gdb says:
>
> (gdb) l* 0xfffffc000042f824
> 0xfffffc000042f824 is in name2oid (../../kern/kern_sysctl.c:621).
> 616 *p = '\0';
> 617
> 618 oidp = SLIST_FIRST(lsp);
> 619
> 620 while (oidp && *len < CTL_MAXNAME) {
> 621 if (strcmp(name, oidp->oid_name)) {
> 622 oidp = SLIST_NEXT(oidp, oid_link);
> 623 continue;
> 624 }
> 625 *oid++ = oidp->oid_number;
Perhaps static sysctls in modules are broken for some reason? The sysctls were
all recently changed from dynamic to static.
> When I boot into single user mode and try to load the module after boot, this
> happens:
> Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:
># kldload random
> panic: cpu_fork: curproc
This is a bug. For kernel threads, we fork off of proc0, not curproc, so that
check in the alpha cpu_fork() is bogus.
> syncing disks...
> done
> Uptime: 27s
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