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Date:      Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:48:23 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no>, FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org>, kmacy@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   LOCK_PROFILING variant struct sizes (Re: netstat wierdness?)
Message-ID:  <20070313214823.GA13287@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <45F706A2.5020106@elischer.org>
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 01:16:34PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> >Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> writes:
> >>answering myself..
> >>comes from having options LOCK_PROFILING in my kernel.
> >>adding the same to /etc/make.conf and recompiling netstat and libkvm=20
> >>helped.
> >>(not sure if both are needed)
> >
> >This is very bad.  LOCK_PROFILING should have no visible effect on
> >userland.  That is precisely what xinpcb, xunpcb, xtcpcb etc. are for:
> >to isolate userland from kernel structures.  They should not contain
> >any locks or anything else which would be affected by LOCK_PROFILING
> >or other kernel options.
> >
> >DES
>=20
> sockstat actually told me that all those were the wrong size, so apparent=
ly
> they change size too.(!?)
>=20
> I haven't gone to look at their definition yet, but as you say, it sounds=
=20
> like
> something was done wrong.

Kip made some changes to this recently, perhaps he can comment.

Kris

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