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Date:      Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:51:41 -0700
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: LOR: sigacts vs Giant
Message-ID:  <20030813195141.GA919@dhcp42.pn.xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030813143415.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20030813180202.GA643@dhcp42.pn.xcllnt.net> <XFMail.20030813143415.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:34:15PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> 
> sendsig() on ia64 drops the lock around the copyout, see line 921 in
> machdep.c.  It is not reacquired again until the very end of the
> function.  You could change the assert at the top of the function to
> say that sigacts is not recursed, but sigacts is already a non
> recursive lock.  Do you have local diffs to HEAD?

Argh, yes. I thought the behaviour was identical to the copyout()
case, otherwise I wouldn't have reported it. I missed the unlock
on line 921. My bad, sorry,

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net



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