Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:24:14 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, jasone@FreeBSD.org, Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@technokratis.com> Subject: Re: mtx_init: MTX_RECURSE and potential SMP troublespots Message-ID: <XFMail.010118102414.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3A671284.A8DA14C1@elischer.org>
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On 18-Jan-01 Julian Elischer wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: >> > >> >> Also, MTX_NORECURSE is only useful on spin mutexes. If you compile a kernel >> with MUTEX_DEBUG and ichsmb, it panics during boot. All the MTX_NORECURSE >> flags just need to die here. > > yeah, recursing should always be illegal. >:-) It will be by default. MTX_RECURSE will be an opt-in flag to mtx_init() (if that makes any sense). -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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