On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Hiten Pandya wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 10:53:08AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote the words in effect >of: > > > > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > > On 05-Feb-2003 Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > > > > > Is there ever a case when a vnode is locked for longer than the duration > > > > of the syscall that locked it? > > > > > > Shouldn't be. That would be a bug I believe. Userland threads should > > > never hold any kernel locks. > > > > That's what I think too but I just thought I'd ask.. > > (NFS worries me a bit) > > If It did, wouldn't that give a panic() with something like: > "panic: mutex held on exit to userland..." > > ... or something like that?
Nope; lockmgr doesn't have that feature, although all the SMPng locking primitives do, I believe. In fact, I believe that's the source of Julian's question, since I've had a conversation with him about adding that sort of sanity checking. In adding that sort of sanity checking, you want to be very sure we don't break any existing assumptions. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
