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Date:      Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:27:48 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Tony Arcieri <tarcieri@atmos.colostate.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern sched_ule.c (fwd)
Message-ID:  <41C0BA64.3080908@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041215215422.GA19373@flash.atmos.colostate.edu>
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Tony Arcieri wrote:

>On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:40:50PM -0500, David Schultz wrote:
>  
>
>>On Wed, Dec 15, 2004, Tony Arcieri wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>And am I correct that the UMA implementation in RELENG_5 has rendered
>>>proc_fini() obsolete and thus it won't ever be called?
>>>      
>>>
>>This has very little to do with either UMA or ULE.  Yes, it's
>>unused, but it's still there as a reminder that it *ought* to be
>>used.  Unless there are still races I don't know about, it's
>>probably safe to start using it again.
>>    
>>
>
>Well, I'm going by the comments and implementation from kern_proc.c in HEAD:
>
>/*
> * UMA should ensure that this function is never called.
> * Freeing a proc structure would violate type stability.
> */
>static void
>proc_fini(void *mem, int size)
>{
>	
>	panic("proc reclaimed");
>}
>
>The implementation in RELENG_5 invokes a scheduler function which is no
>longer present in HEAD.
>

when we declare teh zone for processes we tell UMA that it must never free
a proc back to system memory. thus the 'fini' routine, that would be called
is a page of that zone were to be returned to the system, should never 
be called.

>
>Tony Arcieri
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