Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 09:46:52 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> To: Kohji Okuno <okuno.kohji@jp.panasonic.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About kevent Message-ID: <20140228174651.GP47921@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20140228.212908.344599447475200780.okuno.kohji@jp.panasonic.com> References: <20140228.111358.1991189164034042401.okuno.kohji@jp.panasonic.com> <20140228071619.GO47921@funkthat.com> <20140228.212908.344599447475200780.okuno.kohji@jp.panasonic.com>
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Kohji Okuno wrote this message on Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 21:29 +0900:
> > Kohji Okuno wrote this message on Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:13 +0900:
> >> I have a question about kevent.
> >>
> >> How should the userland judge knote which is cleared from knlist by
> >> knlist_clear() or knlist_delete()?
> >
> > It looks like I need to read the code better... knlist_clear (killkn=0)
> > and knlist_delete (killkn=1) are wrappers around knlist_cleardel...
> >
> > Looking at the code of knlist_cleardel, if killkn is set
> > (knlist_delete) the knote will be dropped (free'd)... if it is not set,
> > the flags _EOF and _ONESHOT will be set such that it'll be returned
> > soon..
> >
> > Now that I look at the code, KNOTE_ACTIVATE is never called to be put
> > on the list to be delivered, so now I'm not sure if it works the way
> > it's suppose to... I have a feeling that the notes might hang around
> > forever until the kq fd is closed...
> >
> > I'm also puzzled as to why _DETACHED isn't set, which would seem to
> > mean that we'll call f_detach when we close the kq, which I assume
> > could cause a panic...
> >
> > This needs to be investigated/tested...
>
> Thank you for your comment.
>
> I tried test by usb_dev. When a USB device is lost suddenly, I can
> receive EV_EOF|EV_ONESHOT on kevent->flags.
Ok, good, that means the documentation in knlist_clear(9) is correct...
Thanks for verifing this for me...
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