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Date:      Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:50:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   KLD, kernel threads, zone allocator
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.4.21.0007171638430.14955-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>

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I am writing a KLD that gives me kernel fault each time I run 'ps' command
after 'make unload'.  The KLD has a system call to create several kernel
threads by calling kthread_create(). During unload, I set flags to each
threads so that they will call exit1() upon wakeup (sleep on a timeout).  
Before the last thread calls exit1(), it wakeup the kld unload process so
that make 'unload' can finish. Is there anything wrong or better
solutions?

I also use vm_zone to allocate some data structes within the KLD. When
unloading, I can use zfree() to free them except the zone header that I
can not free(some_zone, M_ZONE).  This is because M_ZONE is defined as
*static* in vm_zone.c I wonder if this will cause memory leak after
several loading and unloading the KLD.

Finally, I want to know how to save the panic screen without hand writing
it down.  Any info on debugging under db> after fault?

Any help is appreciated.

-Zhihui



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