[issue410] PREVIEW (SMP) crash on initializing the bridge

[Gergo Szakal]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 10:45:05 -0800 (PST)
Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com> wrote:

>     Good catch, Thomas.  Those allocation calls are seriously broken. 
>     No code is supposed to use M_RNOWAIT ... it is supposed to be an internal
>     flag used only by the other #define M_* macros.  Without M_NULLOK the
>     kmalloc() will panic.  Without any M_USE_* flags any RNOWAIT will 
>     cause the underlying VM system to be called without the correct VM
>     allocation flags, and crash precisely due to the reason you cited.
> 
>     I also agree that M_*NOWAIT should not be used at al lthere.  This is
>     probably a left-over from FreeBSD, which used M_NOWAIT freely in 
>     initialization code with the expectation that the malloc would only
>     ever fail due to a lack of resources.  In DragonFly, M_NOWAIT really
>     does mean no-waiting... any blocking condition will cause it to fail.
> 
>     All of those calls should probably be M_WAITOK.  Please go ahead and
>     make that commit now.
> 
> 					-Matt

Does this also explain why this problem occurs in SMP only?

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Gergo Szakal <bastyaelvtars at gmail.com>
University Of Szeged, HU
Faculty Of General Medicine

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