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Date:      Fri, 9 Jul 2004 17:46:27 +0000 (UTC)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_witness.c
Message-ID:  <200407091746.i69HkRJS087027@repoman.freebsd.org>

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jhb         2004-07-09 17:46:27 UTC

  FreeBSD src repository

  Modified files:
    sys/kern             subr_witness.c 
  Log:
  Check the lock lists to see if they are empty directly rather than
  assigning a pointer to the list and then dereferencing the pointer as a
  second step.  When the first spin lock is acquired, curthread is not in
  a critical section so it may be preempted and would end up using another
  CPUs lock list instead of its own.
  
  When this code was in witness_lock() this sequence was safe as curthread
  was in a critical section already since witness_lock() is called after the
  lock is acquired.
  
  Tested by:      Daniel Lang dl at leo.org
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.175     +21 -9     src/sys/kern/subr_witness.c



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